@mevinyavin Do you have any updated rec's for a syncing software? Also is $60 a good price for 1tb SSD from sandisk?
1. Not yet. Still using FreeFileSync.
2. I never answer questions phrased like this one:
A. What sort of 1TB SSD do you need?
B. Why should you be meshubad to any particular company?
What cloud service would be recommend for backing up pictures and videos? The only thing that I care about on my computer is the photos and videos which I am currently backing up to a second internal ssd. I have over 100gb of media and don't have an amazon prime account. (I also have more than 5gb of videos.)
Know little about cloud services, except similar experiences to Jojo202 that I somehow need to work out for them despite me not being the one who set the settings for them:
I was helping someone today.... we log out of his one drive account, and all his desktop disappear and get transferred to a folder called shortcut to OneDrive? Very confusing in my opinion. Maybe different if its a desktop with wired internet, so you never have to worry about online/offline.
Anecdotally, I was once helping a relative with their Mac and I turned off iCloud backup. It was a terrible move, as it convolutedly deletes ALL the local files, and you have to go into the iCloud backup to download all the files again. Not fun, especially if you don't have internet, and the relative is someone that just spent all night preparing for teaching the next day, and all the files disappear into the "cloud".
And apparently this is a normal thing that's "supposed" to happen. (Feature not a bug)
That is, you need to KNOW exactly what the settings are for your cloud services. EVERYTHING is a setting, and somewhere in the program it will be clear what the program is doing with your data. If it is not, you shouldn't be using the program. The control freak in me lets very few programs do anything on my behalf automatically, including backing up to the internet.
Some cloud services store everything on the internet and enable you to access it off of there. Naturally, this is LUDICROUS for someone with an internet connection as bad as mine. Also, as a FEATURE, when you disable it you lose your data until you enable it again.
Some services automatically add a second copy to the internet. This is well and good, lechora, unless you have limited bandwidth and can't send an email because your computer is busy backing up the video you are about to delete.
Don't rely on cloud backup unless you know what you are doing. Unfortunately, Microsoft seems to have greater faith in humanity than I do, and they enable various cloud backups without consulting the user. Apparently Apple thinks the same. They don't seem to realize that some people on this planet don't walk around with a constant connection to the internet - that some believe that the internet is a necessary evil to be used sparingly only when required.
Re: Sandisk
Sandisk has been having trouble with a single product (Extreme external SSDs) and you knock off their history? Like, for example, that they were the ones who invented flash memory in the first place? I wouldn't be concerned, except (of course) for not buying their Extreme external SSDs. (Agav, would you still buy Western Digital, or are they also tarnished as a brand?)
Straw man: it would perhaps surprise DDFers that for an 8-year period, I was not recommending Dell. I'm sure it would not surprise some DDFers that until four years ago, I was not recommending AMD. My point is that performance is the only thing that matters, not brand.
And now, time for another coffee.
