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This looks like a fantastic deal for cloud storage. Amazon is now doing unlimited cloud storage for only £55 per year. This is the full service that does not compress photo like their basic deal.
Anyone currently using Amazon drive, is it any good?
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External hard drive and NAS systems now look very expensive compared to Amazon cloud storage,
 
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As a Prime member, this looks like quite a good offer to use to store a redundant, remote copy of data. I see they support Synology Cloud Sync which would be useful if it worked. For some reason, I find Dropbox behaves great with Cloud Sync, but Google Drive stalls after a while.
 
I gave up the last time I used it as it was incredibly slow in uploading files.
 
DigitalRelish said:
I see they support Synology Cloud Sync which would be useful if it worked.
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It works well, I use it all the time. The upload is reasonably fast at about 50GB per day so the initial upload my be a little long but after that it's very good. You can also set it up as a napped folder in windows so you can access data in amazon the same as your c drive. Obviously its a lot slower and not really practical to work from but its a handy feature
 
I guess the only way to find out is to give the 3-month trial a try.
 
The £55/year deal is separate to Prime. Prime members get unlimited photo storage including raw files. I use it as a secondary backup and it's pretty good, but I also have the advantage of very fast Internet at my office :)
 
I get around 19Mbps max upload. Combined with the ability to back-up from my NAS means it can be backing up 24 hours a day. Amazon Cloud Drive doesn't seem to offer any encryption which is a downside compared to some other services, but then I guess it offers multimedia playback functionality.
 
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