I am thrilled about how far the tech has come and even the prices, but let's not fool ourselves: we have a LONG way to go before this is affordable.

I am thrilled about how far the tech has come and even the prices, but let's not fool ourselves: we have a LONG way to go before this is affordable.

I am thrilled about how far the tech has come and even the prices, but let's not fool ourselves: we have a LONG way to go before this is affordable.

Of course there is value in the online storage / backup, but ZumoDrive puts everything at the end of a really slow connection. Event at home with ~15Mbit down and ~6Mbit up that's not enough for anything frequently updated or large media.

For my money JungleDisk (all in the cloud with a configurable local cache) or DropBox is preferable (all synchronised) are more viable solutions. Jungledisk does my backups right now and Dropbox keeps my working files in sync – I'd like a cross-breed of the 2 so DropBox handled syncing boxes with different local storage capacities, but all the down-sides are preferable to waiting for my files to download all the time.

I'm pro-cloud, but not all cloud is good cloud.

Of course there is value in the online storage / backup, but ZumoDrive puts everything at the end of a really slow connection. Event at home with ~15Mbit down and ~6Mbit up that's not enough for anything frequently updated or large media.

For my money JungleDisk (all in the cloud with a configurable local cache) or DropBox is preferable (all synchronised) are more viable solutions. Jungledisk does my backups right now and Dropbox keeps my working files in sync – I'd like a cross-breed of the 2 so DropBox handled syncing boxes with different local storage capacities, but all the down-sides are preferable to waiting for my files to download all the time.

I'm pro-cloud, but not all cloud is good cloud.

Saying ZumoDrive “will change everything” is like me saying cold fusion will change everything. Of course it will (free, unlimited power from very small sources), but I bet you anything ZumoDrive will have folded an awful long time before the air interface speeds required becomes pervasive to allow anywhere, anytime access to anything.

Maybe in the Netherlands, with GB fibre going into council housing projects, the idea of living with a pure cloud-based solution could be a go-er.

I wish I had £1 for every cloud-based music/file/photo solution i've tried over the last 3 years. I'd probably have enough for a decent meal by now. Most don't exist anymore. Maybe a tipping point of consumer connecitivty is coming, but with the aforementioned cheapness of hard storage already here, I'm not holding my breath….

n.b. my old N800 had 2 SD card slots. so that's 4TB in short order, assuming the OS could handle it. A bit rough, but you get the idea. Streamed/downloaded music was supposed to save the industry, but those pesky kids still sideloaded 80% of content. Admittedly for cost reasons predominantly, but the battery/coverage issues were and are not insignificant, and aren't going away any time soon.

Let's see how you get on on a year's time, with ZumoDrive redux. Pencil that baby into the MIR office calendar.
/m

Saying ZumoDrive “will change everything” is like me saying cold fusion will change everything. Of course it will (free, unlimited power from very small sources), but I bet you anything ZumoDrive will have folded an awful long time before the air interface speeds required becomes pervasive to allow anywhere, anytime access to anything.

Maybe in the Netherlands, with GB fibre going into council housing projects, the idea of living with a pure cloud-based solution could be a go-er.

I wish I had £1 for every cloud-based music/file/photo solution i've tried over the last 3 years. I'd probably have enough for a decent meal by now. Most don't exist anymore. Maybe a tipping point of consumer connecitivty is coming, but with the aforementioned cheapness of hard storage already here, I'm not holding my breath….

n.b. my old N800 had 2 SD card slots. so that's 4TB in short order, assuming the OS could handle it. A bit rough, but you get the idea. Streamed/downloaded music was supposed to save the industry, but those pesky kids still sideloaded 80% of content. Admittedly for cost reasons predominantly, but the battery/coverage issues were and are not insignificant, and aren't going away any time soon.

Let's see how you get on on a year's time, with ZumoDrive redux. Pencil that baby into the MIR office calendar.
/m

I haven't EVEN BEGUN to talk about my movie files. I'm not talking the
lovely, compressed 2.7gb Dark Knight Batman download. I'm talking about
the 6TB of MIR movies that I've got. HD video is about 40gb an hour.

Put that in your 2TB solid state joy drive and smoke it Mike!

I don't want to carry about my data. I just want the immediate regular
stuff right there — and everything — absolutely everything else — stored
remotely and ready for me to 'demand' at a moment's notice.

Admittedly we're years. Decades. Eons away.

I am currently uploading a 120mb MIR Show video at the whopping WHOPPING
average speed of 18.5k per second. Fuck all use that 'cloud' is when I'm
whizzing away at 18.5k/sec.

In fact thinking back about 15 years ago, if I was lucky, I got similar
speeds on my 56k modem.

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Local storage will shortly (within 2 years, max) get so cheap that cloud solutions relying on massive RF bandwidth / coverage / battery life will never be more than niche. And as others have pointed out, this has been around for ages with a slightly less attractive UI in multiple forms, but has not set the world on fire.

Gmail, yes, but that's a different kettle of emails. Consumers have been raised on Hotmail forever, so they just get it. Also email by its nature relies on web connectivity for its value. Documents, Movies and music do not. Apples and oranges there.

How quickly we forget what's just around the corner.

At 300MB/sec, with 2TB on board, you'll be able to store every presentation & doc you could ever create in a lifetime of working, and be able to show it to someone on the Tube or in a plane just fine.

And again at 300MB/sec, creating a copy of everything will be a simple process of hitting go then waking up 8hrs later to a complete backup of everything digital you own.

/m

Local storage will shortly (within 2 years, max) get so cheap that cloud solutions relying on massive RF bandwidth / coverage / battery life will never be more than niche. And as others have pointed out, this has been around for ages with a slightly less attractive UI in multiple forms, but has not set the world on fire.

Gmail, yes, but that's a different kettle of emails. Consumers have been raised on Hotmail forever, so they just get it. Also email by its nature relies on web connectivity for its value. Documents, Movies and music do not. Apples and oranges there.

How quickly we forget what's just around the corner.

At 300MB/sec, with 2TB on board, you'll be able to store every presentation & doc you could ever create in a lifetime of working, and be able to show it to someone on the Tube or in a plane just fine.

And again at 300MB/sec, creating a copy of everything will be a simple process of hitting go then waking up 8hrs later to a complete backup of everything digital you own.

/m

You're right, I do keep a local copy of my 60gb iTunes library — that's most efficient way to access stuff.

But when I'm out and about, and *especially* on my Netbook (which only has 2-3gb usable) I am thoroughly enjoying the prospect of being able to browse and play my iTunes library content easily and without having to manually upload and download stuff I want to listen to.

Invite code worked fine.

Running on my system now.

Gonna try and set up an encrypted layer with TrueCrypt.

Dropbox pisses me off with multiples….

Invite code worked fine.

Running on my system now.

Gonna try and set up an encrypted layer with TrueCrypt.

Dropbox pisses me off with multiples….