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Just adding all my music to another cloud storage facility to free up space on my hard drive even though I am still tempted to dump the lot to USB drive as well as the two clouds they will be on by this afternoon.
Local storage is always better, I wish I had more backed up than I do.
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I definitely recommend putting it to USB as well, especially if you can get a 1-terabyte tank. My dad has one and it's almost like having a system restore.

Local storage is always better' date=' I wish I had more backed up than I do.[/quote'] It does annoy me how stupid people are about 'the cloud' sometimes in assuming that their data now exists in the vast ethereal plains of cyberspace, rather than Unit 376 of Amazon's Sun Systems solid-state storage grid. That said, it does sort of ensure against loss of data as Amazon has to suffer a lot more than a PC for losing customer data by technical failure.
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It does annoy me how stupid people are about 'the cloud' sometimes in assuming that their data now exists in the vast ethereal plains of cyberspace' date=' rather than Unit 376 of Amazon's Sun Systems solid-state storage grid. That said, it does sort of ensure against loss of data as Amazon has to suffer a lot more than a PC for losing customer data by technical failure.[/quote'] Conceptually, the cloud really annoys me. I want my own storage and I want my computer to think for itself. I've lost data to hard drive failure before, but I'd rather prevent that with a RAID array. It gets even worse with cloud-based computing. I rely on my computer for all of my music and graphics production, and I don't like the idea that its capabilities will be quietly ushered out of the building the next time I upgrade, while my ISP happily charges whatever they want for the bandwidth necessary to maintain the illusion that it's all still at my fingertips.
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Local storage is always better' date=' I wish I had more backed up than I do.[/quote'] Need something big to back up to locally hence I am forced in the main to use the cloud storage option - might invest in a 1tb or 2tb external hard drive at the end of the month. The brother in law has his own server for all his music which sounds ideal but he is some IT Engineer type anyway.
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You fell all the time? :P
Dave you ok bro
Thanks for the concern guys xD I'm fine, fell over a few times but was laughing all the way :D all in all it was pretty fun but also terrifying :/ the girls held my hand and helped me so it wasn't too bad :)
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Back to work' date=' slacker, how dare you use your spring break to "relax"! :D[/quote'] Actually, I really do need to do work over this spring break. I've got a reading backlog. Other than that, it should be pretty nice.
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Definitely not. I hate parties and generally speaking hate people who go to parties. I will be relaxing, though, if that answers your question.
Right? What's the appeal? A bunch of people getting together to have a good time sounds horrid. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Right? What's the appeal? A bunch of people getting together to have a good time sounds horrid.
To be clear, I meant 'party' in the collegiate definition, i.e. a bunch of my esteemed colleagues getting together to get high, get drunk and get laid, all to some really awful music. Not one aspect of partying sounds any fun at all. Every time I hear such people talking about 'partying' I instantly hate them, and most of the time the more they talk the more they merit my unrelenting disgust.
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