External hard drive recommendations?
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ranski said:spearman said:
Its all about high availability...
Give it another couple of years and you will be able to stream your windows / osx desktop and apps from the cloud to your endpoint device, whether that be a PC, phone or tablet
Anywhere, any place
Just need the comms infrastructure in place and it'll be main stream
ranski said:spearman said:
Its all about high availability...
Give it another couple of years and you will be able to stream your windows / osx desktop and apps from the cloud to your endpoint device, whether that be a PC, phone or tablet
Anywhere, any place
The cloudon app on the iPad does limited Microsoft office emulation from the cloud onto my iPad already... Though I confess I don't know how good it is as I've not had a proper play yet.
There are a ton of external hard drive options out there in the market. And though it probably would mean to some people what type of disk they are getting, for the general lay users, it would not really matter.
I am in the computer field and I do not even take note of the specs I am getting.
Though with the current advancements, probably the thing that you might want to consider getting is the one supporting USB 3.0.
I am in the computer field and I do not even take note of the specs I am getting.
Though with the current advancements, probably the thing that you might want to consider getting is the one supporting USB 3.0.
I dont like the idea of cloud storage, big brother... what happens if one of the data centres goes foot!? Or your data goes missing? How about upload speed? or the cost of 8TBs?? A small fortune I assume. Just not trustworthy enough for me im afraid. But very useful like ranski was saying 60GBs of floating recent data is pretty cool.
Your own raid and back up more important stuff on BR, like my weekly design files are backed up via BR and the shoots I do are all catalogued on BR just incase of the absolute worst like flooding etc etc
Maybe getting carried away tho. Im talking pro not consumer. HDDs die... end of, really if the data is important the HDDs should be replaced every 2-3 years regardless if they are working at the time of change. Replace your current externals with one 2-4TB external. Means no daisy chaining, less mess with wires and external accessories etc
£200 will do the job for a good consumer 4TB external.
Thunderbolt is epic, its just far too expensive it will be like firewire, I doubt it will get universal adoption like USB, shame really you can run everything from one thunderbolt hub because its back and forward with barely any bottleneck. But £6-800 for a 4TB no thanks. An SSD with a redundant storage drive works fine and speedy for now.
Your own raid and back up more important stuff on BR, like my weekly design files are backed up via BR and the shoots I do are all catalogued on BR just incase of the absolute worst like flooding etc etc
Maybe getting carried away tho. Im talking pro not consumer. HDDs die... end of, really if the data is important the HDDs should be replaced every 2-3 years regardless if they are working at the time of change. Replace your current externals with one 2-4TB external. Means no daisy chaining, less mess with wires and external accessories etc
£200 will do the job for a good consumer 4TB external.
Thunderbolt is epic, its just far too expensive it will be like firewire, I doubt it will get universal adoption like USB, shame really you can run everything from one thunderbolt hub because its back and forward with barely any bottleneck. But £6-800 for a 4TB no thanks. An SSD with a redundant storage drive works fine and speedy for now.