Amazon Cloud Drive

[Mike_TX]

Amazon Cloud Drive

Is anyone using it?

[boober]

I'll have to try that out, 5 gigs of online storage for free?!?! Not too shabby. :applause:

Even the upgrade packages aren't too pricy compared to some other sites. But still, it just seems to make more sense to just either use a flash drive, or external drive etc. These sorts of devices are so cheap nowadays. Maybe if it got to the point where online storage was say just a 1 time fee, with no monthly fees. Say 100 gigs of storage for only 20 bucks. Instead of 100 gigs for $5.00 a month etc.

[persisting1]

Most free email clients are 5 GBs or more and are free. Gmail is over 7 GB. I use multiple gmail accounts to store info that can be accessed anywhere. I wouldn't treat cloud storage as fail proof though. The cloud can fail too.

I'll try it :applause:

[Mike_TX]

I'll have to try that out, 5 gigs of online storage for free?!?! Not too shabby. :applause:

Even the upgrade packages aren't too pricy compared to some other sites. But still, it just seems to make more sense to just either use a flash drive, or external drive etc. These sorts of devices are so cheap nowadays. Maybe if it got to the point where online storage was say just a 1 time fee, with no monthly fees. Say 100 gigs of storage for only 20 bucks. Instead of 100 gigs for $5.00 a month etc.

This is interesting also:

Songs purchased from Amazon MP3 are stored in your Cloud Drive for free
When you purchase songs or albums from the Amazon MP3 Store, you can now save your purchases to your Cloud Drive. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. Even better, you can listen to your music from any web-connected computer with Amazon Cloud Player.

And the best part? When you save your Amazon MP3 Store purchases directly to your Cloud Drive, they don't take up any of your storage space and are always stored for free.

Buy an MP3 album—get 20 GB of storage free for a year
Purchase an album from the Amazon MP3 Store and we'll give you 20 GB of storage free of charge for one year from the date of your purchase. That's enough space to store up to 4000 songs. You can keep your 20 GB storage plan after the year is up or do nothing and we'll drop you down to our free 5 GB plan. Don't worry—you will never be charged for storage space unless you choose to upgrade to a paid storage plan. Learn more about the 20 GB promotion

[sbdman]

Saw this, and passed on it. Just bought a 2Tb external usb drive for $80 shipped. I could hook it up to my Pogoplug (bought for $25) if I wanted to access it on the internet. The other day they had a 3Tb for $120.

I remember when I bought a 500Mb for $250 and was excited with the deal I made! And to really show my age, the $10K paid for an 80Mb at work back in the day. Now you buy a thumb drive that would put that huge monster to shame.

[Kevin_Wadsworth]

I'm with you, sbdman - in college I paid $400 for a 400MB hard drive. $1 per MB was an unbelieveable price! Now, storage prices are roughly 15,000 times cheaper.

With the low price of memory, I don't see the benefit of something like cloud storage for music, at least until all devices (your car, your brother's HT system) can seemlessly interact with it. Until then, I have 32 GB of music in my pocket at pretty much all times. And while the mp3son my phone are compressed somewhat, unfortunately, I'd bet they are still at a much higher bitrate than you can stream from the cloud.

[carpediem]

Saw this, and passed on it. Just bought a 2Tb external usb drive for $80 shipped. I could hook it up to my Pogoplug (bought for $25) if I wanted to access it on the internet. The other day they had a 3Tb for $120.

I remember when I bought a 500Mb for $250 and was excited with the deal I made! And to really show my age, the $10K paid for an 80Mb at work back in the day. Now you buy a thumb drive that would put that huge monster to shame.

Where are you buying your external drives at?

Thanks.

[sbdman]

Where are you buying your external drives at?

Thanks.

My big secret is dealnews.com - I check it out every morning, they have some great deals on computers, periferals, phones, hifi, clothing, toys, tools...

Like for today only, they list an Iomega 2Tb drive at Dell.com for $80 w/ free shipping. I got a Hitachi at Newegg for the same price.

Good hunting!

[carpediem]

My big secret is dealnews.com - I check it out every morning, they have some great deals on computers, periferals, phones, hifi, clothing, toys, tools...

Like for today only, they list an Iomega 2Tb drive at Dell.com for $80 w/ free shipping. I got a Hitachi at Newegg for the same price.

Good hunting!

Thank you. I go to slickdeals.net, fallwallet.com and a few others.

[TechFan]

I'm with you, sbdman - in college I paid $400 for a 400MB hard drive. $1 per MB was an unbelieveable price! Now, storage prices are roughly 15,000 times cheaper.

With the low price of memory, I don't see the benefit of something like cloud storage for music, at least until all devices (your car, your brother's HT system) can seemlessly interact with it. Until then, I have 32 GB of music in my pocket at pretty much all times. And while the mp3son my phone are compressed somewhat, unfortunately, I'd bet they are still at a much higher bitrate than you can stream from the cloud.

As I was reading the posts prior to yours I was remembering getting a 385MB drive for $385, and what a great deal it was at the time. I also remember defending a position in grad school that Windows could become a threat to Apple in the personal computer market. The guy disagreeing with my team talked about how much of a memory hog Windows is, and my reply: "RAM is only $75/MB and getting cheaper!" Funny!!!

Randy

[Volta]

I'm waiting for Apple's version of this personally. Still, what I don't get or maybe they haven't got there yet, but you still have to upload music onto the server on the internet right? In other words, you have to use the storage space provided by Amazon as opposed to using our own local storage.
I can't wait for the day that you can access your own computer from home via the internet and play your music off your machine at home.
I have over 200GB of music at home and I want to be able to access that with no limitations. I think this technology of cloud servers is brilliant though.