Cloud Storage for Music


Which is the best cloud storage company for storing the thousands of songs I have on iTunes. It is not clear to me that iCloud is the solution, as I understand it streams only in 256K or less. I do not necessarily need the music streamed from the cloud, only stored in its current format and resolution (CD quality or better) so I can bring it back on to my computer if I want to. I don't mind paying a reasonable amount so long as the service does what I need reliably and simply.

Advice? Thanks.

Neal
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Showing 1 response by almarg

Outstanding answer by Mlsstl, IMO.

A key point that is often overlooked by those relying on the cloud for backup purposes is that although the upload processes may go fine if done incrementally, little by little over time, if and when all of that data ever has to be downloaded in its entirety (due to failure of a local hard drive), it may take an absurd amount of time.

For example, downloading 1 TB of data over a 5 mbps connection will take AT LEAST 500 hours. And perhaps considerably more, depending on the speed and loading of the server at the other end.

And if the upload process is intended to be done all at once, rather than incrementally, the number of hours required would extend into the thousands at that connection speed, since upload speeds are generally much slower than download speeds.

Regards,
-- Al