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Cincopa Cloud Stores & Streams Your Media

Cloud storage is huge, and many of us have stored our data in the cloud already. Whether we’re storing documents or media, the cloud gives us a safe place other than our hard drive to access our data in case of a mishap on our hard drive. Still there are others who think that it is too dangerous to store our most vital information in the cloud because we no longer have control of it. No matter what side of the fence you are on, cloud storage is become a reality for more than personal use, but also for businesses.

Cincopa is now offering cloud storage for digital music in an application called Tubemystuff. The idea is that most of our media far outweighs the storage capacity of our mobile devices. Many of us have hundreds if not thousands of gigabytes of music and video that simply can’t come with us. This is what Tubemystuff plans on changing. Rather than having to pick and choose what to bring with you, you upload what you want, and Tubemystuff allows you to access the other stuff later via a cloud connection.

You have the capability to listen to stored music when you home PC is online and offline, but the product prefers that you create huge playlists on their servers so that you don’t have to rely on the physical storage of your computer. While compelling, I’m not quite sure the audio quality would be the same. I’ve used other cloud services and the quality does seem to be reduced.

There are a variety of services just like this. Do you use any? Can you recommend something better. Let us know what cloud services you use in order to access your media while away from home.

Imation Wireless Hard Drive

Storage is a huge topic for most technology users. Whether we store locally or in the cloud, there’s never enough space. As a content creator, video, audio, photos, writings, this all takes space, and the more frequent you do it the more quickly your space fills up.

I’m a firm believer of using multiple forms of storage for redundancy and access requirements. I’ve got an account on Zumodrive, Box.net, and Dropbox, each of them for different needs and clients, but I also have two external drives that I back up my main system to, but they are all physical drives that require a direct connection to my computer. Now’s the time to cut those wires and Imation has the answer.

The Imation Pro WX Wireless USB Hard Drive cuts the cords and allows you to store your data from up to 30 ft. away. I at first scoffed at this considering that it did little for me if I’m trying to access my data remotely, but I soon saw uses for this if I’m on my laptop.

Sitting at home and backing up data on your laptop no longer requires a direct connection. If I’m on my couch, and the wireless hard drive is on, I can simply use the USB connection to send data straight to the external.

Personally that’s great, but I’m still a firm believer of the cloud since I don’t want all the data stored locally, but will need access to it on matter where I am. But, if you’re someone who simply uses their computers at home, perhaps this is an option, if you’ve got the money to drop for it ($450).

But if you access all your data from home, a more cost effective external might suffice for now.