Clouds, are they really good?
Should you backup to the ‘Cloud’? This is not an indepth article, just my own experience. Having thousand of photos on my computer and several external drives, I thought the idea of also having them somewhere else was a good idea. After doing a lot of searching and reading, I decided to try JustCloud. I will say right now that price was important. So I signed up for a trial. It was easy to get started and select what I wanted to back up, and it backed up some files very quickly, but if I wanted to back up more I would have to pay. So I decided to try CrashPlan instead. Again it was pretty easy to sign up for a 2 weeks test and decide what I wanted to back up. This time it was a real 2 week trial, they would back up as much as I wanted for 2 weeks. However it was depressingly slow. I was back-
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