Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 What site would you recommend for online storage? I need to store at least 60 GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt JadeWolf Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 In separate files or in one single file? Rapidshare is an option, but not the best. iDrive I recommend, you get 10 gb per account if you send an email about the site to ten email adresses. So you coudl just make 10 gmails, register and account to each, and send emails to all the other with each account. that would make 100 gb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 60GB+ in the form of multiple pics. I found this site (BADONGO) that apparently allows unlimited storage for free. Anyone have experience with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 If you're just storing pictures, you can also try places like ImageShack and PhotoBucket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 You might want multiple sites after the fiasco with Microsoft temporarily losing Sidekick stored information. After all servers go down and there is no guarantee that they backed up everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Honestly, external storage devices are cheap enough these days. You can get a good sized external drive for under a hundred bucks, and you have greater security and less crap to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Not to mention the lack of recurring fees that some sites charge for storing more than a certain amount of data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 The reason I want to use online storage is so that I can upload large amounts of data quickly via my universities' internet connection. I am working on an honours project that uses infrared modified web cams to track the movement of terrestrial isopods. The previous student that worked with this system went the hardrive route but apparently with USB 2 it took hours to move all the data onto the external hardrive. I figure that uploading then downloading should be much faster, as I can upload simultaneously from the four computers, and university upload speeds are crazy fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I can transfer multiple gigs (like, 20+ easily) in less than an hour with my 6 or so year old drive. Then again, it uses firewire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I agree. I've never seen any upload/download speeds involving the internet that compared to modern cables. Firewire 800 is quite satisfyingly fast, although apparently now deprecated by just about everyone. USB is quite good enough to transfer 60 gigs in a few minutes. —Alorael, who has in fact been using his laptop as a hub so that data can go in one cable and out another as he tried to consolidate and organize backups from five different hard disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 Well it took 3 hours per computer to delete the pics from the previous project. I get 2Gb/sec upload, so that's 30 secs for 60GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 A lot of your problem sounds like it may be the fragmentation of the data into many small files. This often drastically slows down processes like transfer or deletion. If it took 3 hours just to mark the files as deleted, I would expect it to take at least that long to pour them into the network connection for uploading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 on modern filesystems it's pretty hard to get your disk fragmented badly enough to noticeably affect performance unless you've also used up nearly all the available disk space, which you shouldn't do anyway on the other hand if they're university computers they're probably still using FAT32 or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 They're just some cheap Toshiba laptops, no firewire port and Vista. Everything seems painful on them, compared to a Mac, but I'm betting that's just because they are low end models. 2GHz Centrino or something like that. Found them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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