Have you guys heard of Dropbox?

It's great for saving files in a cloud like manner and you are able to access your file either through other connected PC's, or from their website. You initially start out with 2GB's free, they also have paid versions as well. they have a video on their website here

 

Been using it since day 1 of initial release.

 

this is such a great idea?
but does it load a resident program on start up?

 

Isn't it obvious?

 

just hoping it didnt have to, is all

 

It does but you can just disable it and not have it start at start up via CCleaner or MSconfig.

 

Its useless if you disable it lol.. The whole point is for it to main everything automatically, everytime you edit something in the dropbox folder.

 

would have been more usefull if you could disable it via taskbar icon. or have settings that will allow you to disable at start up.
im thinking that something like this may use a fair amount of cpu cycles, and if you need raw power, you could shut it down or disable.

 

You can.


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I had an awful experience with Dropbox. I backed up nearly 1.5 terabtyes worth of data to their servers. Mainly raw 1080p video files (I do alot of video editing in Adobe Premiere both professionally ($$$) and for leisure (no money)), and about 200 gb worth of music and photos.

Anyways, I backed up my videos/music/photos and everything is fine for the first few months. But come the 6th month, I get an email from Dropbox and ALL my data has been corrupted.

Apparently as they were doing some maintentance, one of the technicians knocked over the servers and several clients' data (more specifically MY data) was permanently lost.

However, I was smart (or lucky?) because I backed up my files to an external HDD 3 days before the incident occurred.

I got a full refund for the entire time I had it and many "apologies for your lost data blah blah" line.

Moral of the story? ONLINE STORAGE. . . . NEVER, AGAIN.

 

your system can do around 6.4 billion operations per second. no matter what drop box does, it can NOT use a fair amount of cpu cycles. there are orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude between what drop box needs and what your system can handle.

i don't get how people still are that "paranoid" about autorun stuff. you want something that handles something new for your, all the time? accept an autorun, then.

indeed. online backup, not really, but okay.. but online STORAGE, never.

 

You are better off having a usb powered external hard drive if you wanted portability. They are coming in flavours of 1TB now. What you could do is put your most recent projects on that and back up the rest on a Drobo or similar product (not for editing, but safe backup)

 

That is like saying that you will not use any other HDD after one failed.

Backup implies always duplicated or triple, quad etc... files.

 

which is why he said online STORAGE.

backup, i wouldn't suggest it for other reasons. but storage, never.