Cloud storage

I'm still not totally convinced and sorted with this.

I have a Mediafire account, and I bought their 1TB cloud storage deal, because, over the years I've lost so much music, and I thought it would be good to actually pay for storage, because less chance of it closing down / changing to paid ones, unlike free ones. You get something like 50gb for free, which is good.

It is something like £3 a month for the 1TB deal, which is WELL cheap. Considering 1TB hard drives, that are prone to death, are on average, at their cheapest £50, so that's a year and a half's worth.

Only problem is that you can't upload folders, you have to upload files, so, albums wise, all my stuff is in folders (as it would be for anyone else), so I would have had to zip them all up individually, and then upload, which would have taken months, so, I hastily got rid of it. You can sync folders with the account, but that doubles the size of the storage on your computer, so knack that, defeats the point.

Google Drive says it has 15gb, but that's shared across various places. Dropbox is alright, but it's pretty small, it updates well and you can put folders, but it's only a few gb.

Most of the other free cloud sites are too small to be REALLY worth doing it, and the rest are 5/6/7/10 quid a month, which adds up a lot over the year.

I've had three external hard drives die on me over the years, so I've lost faith in trusting them. It seems that memory sticks are more reliable, but it's way more expensive to have that kind of storage on those.

I thought I'd found the answer with Mediafire storage, that would have been perfect if I could have just uploaded folders, but, no...

Ah, now... there's a difference between Back Up and Storage. Just had a look at Monster Cloud, cos I thought that was ridiculously cheap.

*i think this is right anyway*
Back Up, you need the physical space on your computer to be able to do it, because it will be backing it up in a folder that syncs with the site, so essentially it's making a duplicate of it and putting it on there... whereas Storage, you can upload it and then delete the files if you so want to.