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Where do you store your stuff?

I use dropbox, google drive, flickr, amazon, skydrive all for various things. It's out of control!

So far, it's been determined by what type of files I want to store and what I want to do with them (backup/archive, remote play).

Music - Amazon & iTunes

Photos - Flickr/picasa

General backup/accessibility - dropbox/google drive/skydrive

As a note, I pay for the majority of the above services for storage.

What systems do you use to store your files?

9:14 AM Aug 17 2012

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Pretty much just Evernote (paid.) Most everything else is local. I have things on iCloud and other services but nothing I really rely on.

9:38 AM Aug 17 2012

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Do you back up local to an external hard drive?

10:22 PM Aug 17 2012

I backup locally but I like to have access to some files, particularly music on my android. I have music stored in the Amazon player as well as the google music play system. I have iTunes locally as well. I really think I need to do some research and comparisons to choose one and roll with it.

Pictures are another issue. I've played with Picasa and flickr. I just want a place to store/organize/share pics with friends and family.

Other data files, I prefer to keep local unless it is something I'd like to share. google docs has worked ok here.

11:48 PM Aug 17 2012

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Pictures is a funny one because Picasa doesn't really exist anymore -- Google rolled it into Google+.

I say it's a funny one because you avoided the most popular solution: stick em in Facebook, which let's face it, sucks for everything except pictures and chat.

Flickr seems like a decent solution but it's a pain to maintain.

I still prefer to keep it all local, then download a small subset to whichever device I want to carry with me.

I treat my music the same way -- download a small subset to my device -- though with Pandora and Spotify (or whichever streaming music service you like) that provides a nice alternative.

8:44 AM Aug 18 2012

Dropbox. Great company. Wonderful customer service. Never in a million years would I trust google when the chips are down; they'd give me some automated form that would take 10 days to turn around and get a response.

4:58 PM Aug 17 2012

You've been in touch with Dropbox customer service?

10:22 PM Aug 17 2012

Yup, multiple times. For team account and prior. When stuff goes wrong with google, I get help forums and forms. Dropbox are really snappy about responses, usually within a couple hours (business hours; not sure about non-business hours).

10:55 PM Aug 17 2012

I haven't known anything to go wrong with Dropbox, and with Google I've only had something go wrong once, and it resolved itself in a few days.

8:45 AM Aug 18 2012

Eric, what strikes me about your storage is that you're paying a half dozen companies: Amazon, Apple, Flickr, Dropbox, and Google. Fascinating.

I'm the opposite. I have a local RAID backup on Time Machine that runs regularly.

I let my Flickr Pro expire, I refuse to use iCloud, and I don't want to pay for Dropbox.

I think Cloud Storage is ridiculously expensive and needs to come down a lot in price before I'd consider it.

10:26 PM Aug 17 2012

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I'm also annoyed that iPad and iPhone aren't available with more than 64Gb.

FIX IT FIX IT IX IT FIX IT FIX IT!

10:28 PM Aug 17 2012

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They really should have a micro SD slot. Maybe next versions.

11:48 PM Aug 17 2012

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But then they can't sell you skus with bigger hard drives and it neuters iCloud... I'd be surprised if they do until the market forces them to.

1:58 AM Aug 18 2012

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Well then I hope the market price forces them to, because I really don't like iCloud as a solution until it gets significantly bigger in allowed storage and significantly reduced in price.

8:47 AM Aug 18 2012

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