Gflo
join:2009-06-25
Oxford, GA Reviews:
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| reply to fifty nine
Re: sooner or later said by fifty nine:SO let me ask you - what is the average home user going to need 10 or 20Mbps upload for? Just a straight up honest question. And remember this is the AVERAGE home user, for legal uses only. I'll let you come to my house and try to back up my 3.5 TB of data on my 384Kb/s DSL upload speed. |
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 DavidNow accepting new patientsPremium,VIP
join:2002-05-30
Granite City, IL
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| said by Gflo:]I'll let you come to my house and try to back up my 3.5 TB of data on my 384Kb/s DSL upload speed. At that point why don't you just do a local backup? You would have far less internet time invested, and get a better local lan transfer rate.
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4 edits | Sometimes the point of the back up is to get it "off site".
Also, if your going to stay local then why not just add hard drives and skip the whole LAN thing altogether?
Answer is again, many people want the data off site in case of disaster. ( Fires, hurricanes , tornadoes, crazy relatives, whatever, ect...) |
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said by David:said by Gflo:]I'll let you come to my house and try to back up my 3.5 TB of data on my 384Kb/s DSL upload speed. At that point why don't you just do a local backup? You would have far less internet time invested, and get a better local lan transfer rate. In today's world where everything, (family pictures, video, tax information, etc) is stored electronically, having an EXTERNAL backup solution is sound thinking.
Not in the garage or in a fire safe, but actually external to your home. Preferably out of your metro area to hedge against natural disasters. |
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| said by Uncle Paul:said by David:said by Gflo:]I'll let you come to my house and try to back up my 3.5 TB of data on my 384Kb/s DSL upload speed. At that point why don't you just do a local backup? You would have far less internet time invested, and get a better local lan transfer rate. In today's world where everything, (family pictures, video, tax information, etc) is stored electronically, having an EXTERNAL backup solution is sound thinking. Not in the garage or in a fire safe, but actually external to your home. Preferably out of your metro area to hedge against natural disasters. If you're doing a disaster recovery backup you can do that over a slower speed connection. I actually do my cloud backups overnight where it can take its sweet time. |
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| Just because you're happy doing large data backups overnight doesn't mean that everyone wants to have to go through that.
This has been an issue with computing since the 80s. Every time computing hardware has increased in storage or processing speed, there has always been applications to fill the void.
Data speeds are no different. |
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DavidNow accepting new patientsPremium,VIP
join:2002-05-30
Granite City, IL
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said by Uncle Paul:In today's world where everything, (family pictures, video, tax information, etc) is stored electronically, having an EXTERNAL backup solution is sound thinking. Not in the garage or in a fire safe, but actually external to your home. Preferably out of your metro area to hedge against natural disasters. I guess I could dig a pit 50ft underground with a manhole type of cover and put a PC down there and run power and an Ethernet cable there. I mean if push really come to shove I suppose. I am sure if a nuclear bomb dropped in our area tomorrow it won't matter where in the cloud I backed it up at I wouldn't be able to access it quickly anyway.
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| Flood? Wildfire? Hurricane?
A lot depends on where you live, but nature happens. |
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