[Eee Pad Transformer General] proplayer44:
So my setup is I have two laptops, my wife's and mine, plus two iphone 4s and now the transformer. I have a windows home server at home for back ups but I don't have a mirrored drive or anything, not fault tolerant. But I almost always have two copies of our pictures, movies, home movies and music anyway. But I love the idea of pushing it all up to the cloud in case of fire or flood and such. I've thought about using the free services and I've found adrive.com to be good as it allows 50 gigs for free. But I'm concerned about file security and fault tolerance with them because after all it's free so what are they getting out of this.

Last night I started playing with the my cloud service and my first thoughts is this is really cool even at $50 a year(after first year) the syncing and backup is handy. My wife primarily takes all the pictures of our kids and quite often I never get around to looking at the hundreds of pictures she has on her laptop unless she throws them up on FaceBook. We also now only ever seem to make videos with our iPhones, which we never look back at what we recorded. I thought this will be great, I can set her laptop to sync her entire pictures folder and anytime I want either from my transformer or my iphone(using the asus iphone app) I can pull down some newer pictures and/or old pictures. I can also push up all my videos from our iPhones too. Or I can pull down those songs that are on her machine or home videos. This thing provides super handy options. Backup all the data we want backup up on all devices, sync specific data on all devices and have full access to all data with just a few clicks, whether on 3g or at home. The fact that its unlimited space too is awesome, just great, this thing is going to be just what we need,... I thought.

But, but but I started thinking about this. All the stuff I want to push up to the cloud would be like at least 500 gig. Really if I want everything up there. But my home internet is only 60 gigs a month bandwidth and I gotta use at least half of that a month on downloading, not just uploading. At this rate it will take me six months to a year of daily work to get everything up in the cloud now. Plus upload speeds are majorly slow compared to downloads. This is never going to happen. So now I'm thinking I gotta start to be choosy about what to push up there. That means I gotta spend hours picking and choosing this and that and moving it all to separate folders which means making copies which eats up my hard drive space and makes everything a major pain. So now I gotta consider trying to find an unlimited provider which is difficult plus its usually a lot slower plus I'm bundled with my phone so... on and on and on.

So everyone is talking about the cloud you know, google, apple, Microsoft, Engadget, Asus but to me I can't see it ever being an amazing new strategy or technology of computing because of the cost of transfer rates and speed. I guess this is just a rant but I felt I need some other opinions on this. I think this cloud computing will never work for people like me with the data I would want to have access to. Are you the same? Maybe I should look into getting my devices all to sync with my home server. Does WMS sync certain folders to all devices?