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Apple Adds New 2TB iCloud Storage Tier for $19.99 Per Month

I currently have the 1TB plan with about 800GB free. The 200GB plan is to small and they got rid of the 500GB plan. I could totally use more space but iCloud Drive doesn't support selective sync and like a lot of other people I have a mac with a SSD. The being said with optimize storage coming I think the usage will go up.
 
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OldSchoolMacGuy said:
Here come the complaints that Google and Microsoft offer more storage for less money, from those that don't understand that Google and Microsoft use the data you store to index and sell you ads based on your data. Apple doesn't index your data in the same way so it's far from apples to apples. It's far more profitable for Google to give you free storage space and then data mine it than charge for it.
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While true about Google, I'm skeptical of that as it pertains to Microsoft.
 
poobear said:
I'm thinking about moving from Dropbox Pro to iCloud.
I know that iCloud doesn't have as many features but I'm cool with that.
What I'm wondering is, say I have 2TB iCloud full with files, and then I buy a 128GB MacBook.
Will it try to downloading everything and fill up the SSD?
Or does it only download when I try to open/quicklook it? And if that's the case, what if I've opened a huge file but then I dont want it locally anymore?
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Sierra is your friend. It does exactly what you are looking for.
 
50 GB for 99 cents is reasonable. Considering there are a lot of people out there with 16 GB phones or less still, that's not bad at all.

I would probably use the icloud for my storage of stuff, but I managed to snag One Drive 1 TB offering since I find that having to use it with the other systems I use is move valuable to me. One Drive on my iPhone works very well on backing up my 5S pics and videos, which I would regard the most critical of data to have backed up.

I am sure that later on, the prices will go down like everyone else... unless Apple has to pay the EU for the back taxes in Ireland....lol
 
Perhaps the biggest reason for the jump in iCloud space is a new desktop syncing feature coming to In the new operating system, all files stored on the desktop or in the Documents folder of a Mac are automatically uploaded to iCloud to make them available across a wide range of devices.
Brandhouse said:
Hope that's just a rumour. Forcing users into a pathway they don't want is a really bad decision.
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Agree. Don't mind if you can toggle it on or off, but to have it automatically upload all my documents is really bad. At present I use DropBox to sync those files I'm currently working on; any backups are kept at home.
 
Brandhouse said:
Hope that's just a rumour. Forcing users into a pathway they don't want is a really bad decision.
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It will likely feature that users can toggle on or off. I use a mifi device at work with a fixed data cap and this feature would chew through my bandwidth in a heartbeat.
 
Richardgm said:
While I have 3 iDevices and have a paltry 5GB to back them all up
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I can understand why Apple wouldn't want their consumers to get storage for older devices that they're not using anymore but many of us use several iOS devices on a daily basis and having to share 5GB among several 64-128GB devices at $700 a pop is ridiculous.
 
Its time for people to stop saving each and every image they take with their cameras. Perform some editing and delete those images that will never be looked at again. Delete those images that are nearly identical to the other image. Delete those videos that will never be used in a project.
 
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gigatexal said:
Lol how do I come off as wanting something for free when both my fiancé and I are paying? Lol and storing data in the cloud isn't all that expensive at scale. And besides they would drive more sales to the phones if they could show it as a feature. Do you think Tesla owners are leeches for having free supercharger access? No. they bought a premium car and I bought a premium phone, iPads, and a few MacBooks and would like the perks.
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You forget about this thing called bandwidth. Its not free and its cost adds up really fast when you have to replicate files across multiple devices and datacenter locations. I use to be in the cloud storage industry and when you have petabytes of data that needs to be replicated across multiple locations just to be secure against data loss its not cheap. Now rely on a 3rd party service like Amazon or Azure and the cost goes up even more.
 
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redpandadev said:
Consider using iCloud Photo Library. In the majority of cases, by far the largest component of a backup is the camera roll. By using iCloud Photo Library, the pictures will be synced, and the space shared across all of your devices. 5gb may still not be enough, but it'll at least be used much more efficiently.
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The subject of family data buckets is an interesting one. The problem is privacy/ownership. Imagine a scenario where the organizer of the family stops paying / downgrades / otherwise alters the data bucket. This could be a destructive action that would destroy a family member's data without their consent. I'm certain that this is something Apple does not want to deal with.
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Good thought process I hadn't considered that and the rates of separations and family splitting etc and what that does to people's digital properties.
 
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Cuban Missles said:
I use iCloud and the way it works for me say using pages is that if I open a document from iCloud, when I exit, it will ask me if I want to save it back to iCloud. I can choose to save the document to iCloud, on the laptop or delete the work I just did.

I typically keep a local copy, a local back up and and iCloud back up, but that is my own paranoia about loosing data.
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Cuban, thanks for your response. I use it much the same way, with an app such as Pages. However, my thing is, if I were to start using iCloud as a storage, iCloud keeps a local copy, is what I understood from some reading I had done about it some time ago.

And I tested it, I copied a 500MB file to iCloud from my external disk and my Macintosh HD space got reduced by that amount. So while the file was copied up to iCloud, there was a local copy of it too. This I believe is also documented, that for the capacity of your HDD, iCloud will download copies from the internet. I have not seen it, so still wondering.
 
CrystalQuest76 said:
Its time for people to stop saving each and every image they take with their cameras. Perform some editing and delete those images that will never be looked at again. Delete those images that are nearly identical to the other image. Delete those videos that will never be used in a project.
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This. but this is hard to do.
I shoot with my iPhone and a few digital cameras. I am starting to try and get better at deleting photos, or at least ranking them (still using Aperture - I don't like simply Favorites, I much refer a number-ranking system). I have gone back to some photos still in iPhoto (from 2000-2003) and have started to delete a bunch. it amazes me what I kept...this is blurry but not bad, or multiple shots of the same thing, or shooting my nephews soccer games and realizing i don't know half the kids in some shots and may as well delete. I find it a time constraint issue. and laziness. I should set aside an hour or two a week to sort and edit pictures. but don't.
 
Piggie said:
You do know that Apple admits it will scan your data you hold on it's cloud servers don't you?
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I know what Apple scans for. They don't go looking to index it and use that information to build a better personal profile of you to use for advertising like Google does. Apple scans to allow Spotlight searches and is far more secure.
 
CrystalQuest76 said:
Its time for people to stop saving each and every image they take with their cameras. Perform some editing and delete those images that will never be looked at again. Delete those images that are nearly identical to the other image. Delete those videos that will never be used in a project.
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I find it quite satisfying that we live in an age where we can record memories freely. Would be a shame to throw away a load of stuff for the sake of a £ € $ or two a month.
 
DevNull0 said:
You're using iCloud as your primary storage?? Have fun when you don't have internet access.

It should be a backup, and the seagate drive should also be a backup.
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No I don't use iCloud or cloud storage at all, I have my data on several SSDs and HDDs, just the point of relying one 1 drive for all your data to be secure is kind of silly.
 
miniroll32 said:
Wait - Dropbox has an all-you-can-eat plan for £9.17 a month. Why would anyone dream of using iCloud?
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never cared for it and am hearing of them being hacked, definitely like the security of iCloud drive and the fact its easily more accessible than I've had with other cloud storage services atlas on a consumer level
 
ZMacintosh said:
never cared for it and am hearing of them being hacked, definitely like the security of iCloud drive and the fact its easily more accessible than I've had with other cloud storage services atlas on a consumer level
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As has iCloud been hacked. You need to be smart what and how you keep your data in the cloud. Point to Point encryption with no shared keys is the only safe solution.

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Dropbox Business is the same price and unlimited storage. 1TB Dropbox Pro is the same price as the 1TB iCloud tier. Considering Dropbox is the best in the business when it comes to file sync, I'll use them as my primary cloud storage provider. OneDrive is my secondary.

Security not an issue since I have 2FA turned on both Dropbox and OneDrive.

Also DropBox 'just works' every time I drop a file into the folder whether in OS X or Windows 10 virtual machine. It's brilliant.
 
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Queen6 said:
As has iCloud been hacked. You need to be smart what and how you keep your data in the cloud. Point to Point encryption with no shared keys is the only safe solution.

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Huh? No it has NOT BEEN HACKED. People's got phishing emails and people got info of specific accounts that way.
If you receive an email claiming its from Apple, well make sure its really Apple before entering your login info...
How the hell is that "hacking", only in a world were words have no meanings.
 
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