My wife and I were just remembering a funny thing that a clerk in Radio Shack told us. We were buying diskettes and he was showing us the new 5 Megabyte hard drive. Yes, that('s right, 5 Megabytes, and he said, "Scary, no?"
The first "thumb drive" (USB key) I bought was all of 64 Megs, and cost about as many dollars.
Today, on Amazon UK, a 128 GB USB key can be had for under £20. That's 2,000 times more data, faster transfer rate and probably about one half the cost (in year 2000 currency).
Point: There's no excuse for not backing up your data. Local backups are better than the cloud, but both is the best solution.
For really important data, you want it on the cloud and in separate two locations.
As per a discussion about the permanence of your music online, there isn't any, certainly not free.
You can get online storage fairly cheap, $5 per month for a terabyte or use Google Drive or Microsoft or whatever, Box, Dropbox, etc etc. But free has no guarantee.
So I get back to local storage. It's the way to go, and it's so inexpensive you can send several CDs worth of music to anyone for the price of a designer coffee.
I've also given away cheap USB keys to people when I played at a local café (one of the last times). We can lament the days when there were albums and covers, but most people under 50 are streaming or listening on a phone. Your phone actually may have enough space to back up a lot of your music, too.
The first "thumb drive" (USB key) I bought was all of 64 Megs, and cost about as many dollars.
Today, on Amazon UK, a 128 GB USB key can be had for under £20. That's 2,000 times more data, faster transfer rate and probably about one half the cost (in year 2000 currency).
Point: There's no excuse for not backing up your data. Local backups are better than the cloud, but both is the best solution.
For really important data, you want it on the cloud and in separate two locations.
As per a discussion about the permanence of your music online, there isn't any, certainly not free.
You can get online storage fairly cheap, $5 per month for a terabyte or use Google Drive or Microsoft or whatever, Box, Dropbox, etc etc. But free has no guarantee.
So I get back to local storage. It's the way to go, and it's so inexpensive you can send several CDs worth of music to anyone for the price of a designer coffee.
I've also given away cheap USB keys to people when I played at a local café (one of the last times). We can lament the days when there were albums and covers, but most people under 50 are streaming or listening on a phone. Your phone actually may have enough space to back up a lot of your music, too.
