I am planning to throw away all the old CD, DVD disc and eliminating hard drives while making the backup of the files to Amazon cloud drive.
I am having 100MB broadband connection which is very fast so I don't even want to use physical drives
Amazon's 59.99 for one-year unlimited storage looks like a good deal to me, compared to the expensive Google Drive.
Anyone used it before? Any advice? What is the max upload/download speed?
I even want to use it to replace my physical hard drives. When I need any files, I download from it.
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Do you have a 100 mbps symmetrical broadband connection though? I assume that is your download speed but you might be severely limited by your upload speed if your connection is not a symmetrical one and you have enough to upload (especially if it's on regular basis as backups should be)
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symmetrical broadband connection???
How do I know if I have it or not -
Take a speedtest - symmetrical means download and upload speeds are the same. I doubt you have this sort of connection since most connections are not symmetrical.
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However... cloud storage's speed depends on the slowest portion on the network.
We have symmetrical GigE at work, and I still can't upload any faster than 7MB/s to AWS.
Amazon cloud drive, is it good?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by kenny1999, Dec 1, 2016.