So, I've just ordered a i5 2500k and a new motherboard, and am wanting to obviously re-install my OS etc, and was wondering about this whole Cloud business. Is it possible to just upload everything I have from my computer, to the Cloud? Namely Steam games, pictures, TV shows and downloads.

Namely Steam games, pictures, TV shows and downloads.

lol. No. My collection of those files are closer to a TB or 2. Just buy an external HDD, they are cheap. 2tb for approx $200?

Aight, and where exactly is this cloud? Do I just type cloud or something into google or what shiz naz? I would have just used a external HDD, but both of my externals are screwed and I don't have the spare money to fix/get new ones.

Backblaze is shit imo. Slow not very flexible.

Crashplan is a better option imo.
You can use Crashplan to backup locally or to a friends machine (if you distrust the cloud).

Basically there's a movement to take storage and processing out of pcs and individual business solutions, and put it into multiple giant data centres where time and space is hired out, data is well backed up against disaster, architecture is able to scale for growing user demand, and much of the "building and maintaining your own" headaches are taken out.

Also lets applications (like games) run entirely on these super computers, and theoretically just pump out the result to the client, balancing the load to when players are active (though that example isn't great, since the response times would be less than ideal, but you could say, on an old computer or a phone, "play" Crysis 4). Or it could be software that's built once, and doesn't actually run on the user's computer/phone/whatever (doesn't need a dozen different code implementations), and they just see the result.

"Backing up to the cloud" just means that your data should be replicated to many different super storage locations around the world, so that it could take an asteroid hitting Earth and you still probably wouldn't lose it. :P

first install all my apps http://allmyapps.com/

create a back up config, that will save you some time on the reinstall of a few things.

as for the rest, dropbox 2gb for free,
adrive 50gb www.adrive.com
sugarsync 5gb www.sugarsync.com
idrive 5gb www.idrive.com
skydrive 25gb www.skydrive.live.com/



last edited by crazymorton at 18:36:06 02/Oct/11

That's why Crashplan rocks.

You can have some stuff (not so important) as "local" and other stuff (important) as cloud, or if you distrust the cloud send it to a friend.

Hummm, probably is better to just get another external. Thought this whole cloud business was free. Ah well haha.

Your Steam games are already in the cloud. Just re-download what you want.

If you downloaded your TV from iTunes or usenet or torrents they are really already in the cloud. Just re-download what you want.

Pictures just stick in a dropbox folder, you probably have less than 2Tb.

Why upload shit you downloaded from the internet just to re-download it?

not long now before your main hd will be the cloud