Hi everyone,
I'm considering moving away from a home desktop system - a first for me since the days of i386 processors. I have a nice laptop that I will continue to use but I've noticed that over the last year I simply don't bother to sit at my desktop and its array of screens. I might be nice gaining that extra space in my place...
But I need to decide what to do with my 1.5tb of data. I don't want to "lose" it obviously, even though 99% could probably go away and I wouldn't notice. But my laptop doesn't have the disk space to house it.
Now I do have Crashplan for data backup. Inasmuch that service might act as an archive, it really isn't for that.
My first instinct is to buy a 2tb NAS drive and move all my data to it. If I can then mount it as a drive letter on my laptop, Crashplan will back it up providing the redundancy I want.
My concern is I have had a NAS fail me before and the "out of sight, out of mind" nature with devices such as this means when it dies I probably won't notice either. My previous NAS predates my online Crashplan cloud so I probably would be safe anyway.
So the point of this email is to inquire about a true online cloud archive for home use. Anyone have any particular service to recommend? An archive (to me) means I don't have the data at all locally with me. It is only in the cloud and that service provides the redundancy in their system.