Tag: storage
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When Things Go Wrong: aka Thank Goodness for Amazon Drive
I have a NAS drive, and it holds all my worldly digital goods. That is, it has all my photos, videos, documents and other things. I still haven’t found a cost-effective off-site backup solution beyond the NAS drive, although I do need one. Something that I can back up, upwards of 6TB of data. Amazon…
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Backup Storage Solutions and Costs
More than a year ago, I wrote about some experiences I’d had with backup storage and thoughts about “off-site” back-ups. It prompted a couple of responses on the blog, and a few more on social media. Not the most exciting of subjects, but an important one, as I still believe that in this age of…
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Storage and Backup: Some Personal Experiences
[Note that this is likely to be duller than usual! It’s mostly written up so that anyone who searches for similar problems might find it useful.] This all began last Wednesday when I noticed an email from Synology inviting me to update the firmware that runs that two NAS drives I own – a DS210j…
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19,013 Songs
That is what it says on my Google Play Music account. 19,013 songs. Look, I realise that all the cool kids are renting their music on Spotify. It might not actually make any money, but it’s so much more convenient paying £10 a month and having access to all your music. Except when the album…