Tranquil 93 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Today, MS announced their new storage product without a limitation. I was searching for a storage service like this long time ago. Maybe it could be a good place to store all my movie files, book a cheap vServer somewhere and connect to the OneDrive storage from within MBS. What do you think about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 That's cool, though I'm trying to lessen my usage of cloud storage services. Maybe I'll setup a personal cloud of my own, we use Owncloud at work and that is pretty cool. I'd just rather have more control over my own items without any fear of a leak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6766 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) I used owncloud a while back, but I could never get anything to stream from it. I don't really want to get involved with online subscriptions. . Edited October 28, 2014 by CBers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TolkienBard 54 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 I'd love to be able to do a full backup of my library to the cloud. I suspect it would take an incredible amount of time to upload it though, so I'm not sure how practical it actually would be. So far, I have yet to find an affordable service I could do that with, my collection is just too large. I looked into the "discount" services like Back Blaze, but at the rate it was backing up my data, it would have taken about 6 months to do a full backup, and that's assuming that my library didn't grow during those six months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf359 6 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 I have started to replace my HD with bigger ones so I use my old ones as backup drives this has been working well so far. Like many of you out there I did look into cloud storage but would take ages to upload. Maybe in a few years when broadband speeds increase then this would become more practical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gthrift 57 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 I have started to replace my HD with bigger ones so I use my old ones as backup drives this has been working well so far. Like many of you out there I did look into cloud storage but would take ages to upload. Maybe in a few years when broadband speeds increase then this would become more practical This. A few weeks ago I saw that 2 out of 4 of my Samsung 1.5 tbs showed a lot of reallocated sectors, so I bought 3 3tb drives, transferred all data to them, wrote zeros to the old ones and am using them for offline backup. I have too much data and too slow internet to mess with cloud backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 What I do typically is important documents and pictures. Music would be after that if possible...but really sort of the essentials that couldn't be replaced. So movies, music, tv shows, etc would be nice but realistically it would be difficult. Also why I have my own ZFS Raid setup though. Having Owncloud setup with that would be perfect, I have a ton of space, no monthly charge and I can set it up on my phone to auto backup pictures and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TolkienBard 54 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I have started to replace my HD with bigger ones so I use my old ones as backup drives this has been working well so far. Like many of you out there I did look into cloud storage but would take ages to upload. Maybe in a few years when broadband speeds increase then this would become more practical Yup, this is basically what I am doing now. I just recently invested in building an actual server, complete with a 12-bay primary and a 16-bay secondary chassis. While I was at it, I bought enough hard drives to cover all of my data plus redundancy. Then, I took all of the externals I had been using and, instead of cannibalizing them to put them into the array, I used them as the primary source for all the data on the array. Even since loading those 32 TB, I have been filling the leftover room on the externals, and then copying the new data to the array. I'm about ready to buy another 5 TB external drive. As I continue to rip media, I will rip it to that drive, then I will copy the drive over to the array. These externals that were my primary drives, are now my backup. This gives me a full backup that does not require months of re-ripping discs from on the wall or from totes that are on their way to storage. The cloud would be a nice way of having a secure off-site backup, but it won't be long before that's what the lion's share of my DVDs and BDs are. I have rapid enough download speeds where I am at that a cloud backup of my media library would be feasible to download, but my upload speeds are not as robust. It would simply take far too long, even if I wasn't fighting with the speed-throttling associated with something like Back Blaze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tranquil 93 Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 My library is approx 12TB and my upload bandwith is only at 5Mbit/sec (but will be 10Mbit/sec soon, I hope). Of cause, it will take a very, very long time to upload all my content to the cloud, but it can solve different problems for me with maybe this way: I want to rent a cheap vServer or dedicated server somewhere, Install MBS on it and link it with OneDrive as my drive storage. Now I should be able to stream directly, without transcoding I hope, to my family and my own system, which are not in the same network. Furthermore, I dont have to care about broken harddrives anymore. But it seems that there is a filesize limit of 10GB for OneDrive. So many HD content can not be uploaded. :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tharnax 49 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I agree with all the prior posts. My collection is much too large to try and upload it all the a cloud service. However, I do like the recent upgrade to OneDrive to add unlimited cloud storage. As it was, I was slowly approaching the 1TB limit just by backing up all my personal photos and videos. At some point I may also throw my music collection up as well, but I doubt I'll ever store my Movie collection. Most of the recent Movies I've been accumulating are 10GB in size, so the size limit is a killer for Movies. On the other hand maybe some day I'd consider storing those TV series, which I've watch but would like to keep around for a while, as an off-line back up. Pulling it back down a season at a time wouldn't be a big deal and currently a HD 1hr long show is usually 5GB or less, depending on quality. It would certainly clean up my TV series folder without permanently deleting the series in some cases or in other cases having to re-rip it if I wanted to watch it again. It would also free up some significant space on my server for more movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper11 63 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I'm certainly glad to see OneDrive go unlimited, but as others have said, I doubt I will be moving movies or TV to the cloud. However, music is a good possibility along with my pictures, digital comics, and possibly music videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TolkienBard 54 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 The more I think about it, the more I am considering moving my television shows and anime shows to the Cloud, or at the very least putting a copy of them there. Of my entire collection, these by far would be the most problematic and time-consuming if I had to re-rip them all, especially the anime which I then often have to go through and manually split into individual episodes. Even the HD content in these arenas is under 10 GB per episode, and since I have all my shows broken down into individual episodes, they should all upload just fine. My music is already loading to the cloud, so that won't be much of a change. My movies, well, they'll just continue to have a local backup along with the original disc sitting in a Rubbermaid tote. I have about 2,000 movies on DVD, each of these would fit under 10 GB, but I have a few hundred BDs as well, and as my collection grows, I also am slowly converting select DVDs over to BD. The movies I would be most concerned about are the ones that have been given the HD upgrade, and so they certainly would never fit under the 10 GB file size limit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tharnax 49 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 @@TolkienBard - My thoughts exactly. Ripping TV is a PITA. I don't watch anime, but I can appreciate the difficulties in getting the rips right so MB can properly tag them. I was looking through my collection and I know of no single episode over 10GB so that won't be an issue but you bring it up a very good point about DVDs. Why not throw them up into the cloud, if you do happen to loose a 4TB drive, without a back-up, I'd rather re-rip about few hundred Blu-rays, then a few hundred Blu-rays & 2000+ DVDs. Taking up precious cloud storage space was an issue, until now! Personally, I'm not concerned how long it takes to upload to OneDrive as long as I have no major system melt down before it's done, but I'll appreciate the the download speed in order to recover my videos from the cloud after the melt down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph476 2 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I used CloudBacko Cloud Storage. It is capable of combining free cloud storages available from Google Drive , OneDrive and Dropbox into a single large storage. By adding multiple free accounts from each of these cloud providers to Free CloudBacko, you can get as much as 100TB of cloud storage free of charge. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6766 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I use CloudGoo. You can combine many different Cloud Storage accounts into one. I currently have 6 different Cloud accounts in it, totalling 145Gb of free storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14898 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 How, exactly, do you get this "unlimited" storage? My account is still limited to 30GB and it wants me to pay for more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1052 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 How, exactly, do you get this "unlimited" storage? You have to subscribe to Office 365 to get the unlimited OneDrive storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14898 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Ah, okay thanks. I mis-interpreted this as "free". BTW the Office365 option still says it is limited to 1TB per household member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tranquil 93 Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 The 1TB limit will be removed soon. Its first in beta stage before it get roll out to all users which have a paid account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2491 Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 so in 10 hours my 250Gb music library will have finished uploading to dropbox along with my photos and i've just been into onedrive and see i have 10Tb available! not quite unlimited yet but i can get half my remaining media on there. i only applied to join the beta when i saw this thread on monday, been a office365 subscriber for a while though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politby 88 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I am currently using CrashPlan to backup documents, photos, music and home videos. The problem with CrashPlan, while it offers unlimited storage, is that they limit upload speed so that even though I have a gigabit Internet uplink, the actual upload speed is only a couple of Mbit/s at best. Is there a comparable service that doesn't throttle upload bandwidth? -- There are two kinds of people. Those who can extrapolate from missing information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2491 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Ok, the office365 unlimited offer has been activated in full. Today I got an email telling me I just have to ask if I want more than the already allocated 10tb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2491 Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 so, the problems: cloud sync on synology is pretty poor. you can't sync multiple folders per cloud service and even if you could theres a limit of 10Gb per file. that would be ok for my photos and music but they are in different places and symlinks dont work on a nas dropbox on the pc is super with symlinks onedrive on the pc doesnt work with symlinks or the onedrive folder on a network or mapped drive so its manual upload only as far as i can see at the moment. nearly but not quite, hopefully synology update their cloud sync app so you can add multiple folders as i really want to leave the nas to do it without bothering the pc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6766 Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) Coming soon, CloudXtender . . Edited November 15, 2014 by CBers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2491 Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 interesting, does look close from the blog. i may have to go for that in the interim but ideally i want this running on the synology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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