If all you are looking to do is free up ssd space, just add another ssd or hdd. It will save you money by not having to pay a cloud subscription fee depending on how much you are trying to store. A decent ssd for speed and storage will cost you prolly $150-$250. For a cloud service you’ll prolly be looking at $50/year per 1tb of storage. The catch is tho, you stop paying… you loose everything you had on the cloud that wasn’t backed up to a physical device. You’re guna want your shit backed up as a safety measure anyways because you can’t control much of anything if all your pc data is on some company’s cloud server. They increase prices, tough shit. They have security breaches, tough shit.
I’m sure a bunch of lemmy users can chime in with self hosting cloud options for secure cloud storage or something along the lines but I’m answering with an understanding that you might not be ready to dive that deep into something like that.
Cloud storage is good if you are in school, travel alot, work on office on somedays while working from home others, or for sharing data between multiple parties.
If everything you do is going to be on your own local pc, then fuck the cloud.
Oh yeah one last thing, if you delete a file on the cloud, there is no recovery wizard, that ahits gone doggy. I can thank Dropbox for that harsh lesson.
If all you are looking to do is free up ssd space, just add another ssd or hdd. It will save you money by not having to pay a cloud subscription fee depending on how much you are trying to store. A decent ssd for speed and storage will cost you prolly $150-$250. For a cloud service you’ll prolly be looking at $50/year per 1tb of storage. The catch is tho, you stop paying… you loose everything you had on the cloud that wasn’t backed up to a physical device. You’re guna want your shit backed up as a safety measure anyways because you can’t control much of anything if all your pc data is on some company’s cloud server. They increase prices, tough shit. They have security breaches, tough shit.
I’m sure a bunch of lemmy users can chime in with self hosting cloud options for secure cloud storage or something along the lines but I’m answering with an understanding that you might not be ready to dive that deep into something like that.
Cloud storage is good if you are in school, travel alot, work on office on somedays while working from home others, or for sharing data between multiple parties.
If everything you do is going to be on your own local pc, then fuck the cloud.
Oh yeah one last thing, if you delete a file on the cloud, there is no recovery wizard, that ahits gone doggy. I can thank Dropbox for that harsh lesson.