If you’re purchasing storage on your iOS device, tap the Settings app, then iCloud -> Storage & Backup -> Buy More Storage. On your PC, you can find similar preferences in the control panel, under Network and Internet. From there, click Manage, then Buy More Storage. On your Mac, open the System Preferences app and click on the iCloud button. You can purchase more storage from your Mac, PC, or on your iOS device.
If you change your mind, Apple also allows you to cancel at any time and receive a prorated refund (you’ll only be charged for the portion of the year you used the extra storage for, rather than the full amount), or select a plan to downgrade to at the end of your billing year.
You can upgrade to 15GB for $20/year, 25GB for $40/year, or 55GB for $100/year. Apple offers several tiers of storage, priced by the year. You can buy more storage from the iCloud preference pane. What if I need more storage? Will there be a way to pay for more? Your purchased music, apps, books, and Photo Stream photos (more on that below-won’t count against your 5GB limit. That storage space covers mail, documents, and mobile backup data.
Of course, there’s also the bigger picture: By creating a system where all your computing devices communicate seamlessly and let you access your media on demand, Apple is making it even more appealing to stay in the Apple ecosystem and to buy even more Apple devices.ĥGB of data with a free iCloud account. The promise of iCloud is that syncing media and data will “just work.” Just enter your Apple ID on your various devices and iCloud will make sure that all those devices have the most up-to-date content on them.
Coordinating all your information between these devices has become a chore-particularly when you attempt to do it all from a single computer.
Given that now that many of us have not only multiple computers but also one or more mobile computing devices such as the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, this makes a lot of sense. The fact you find that difficult or impossible to recognize, and the fact that you keep trying to make your invalid points about why tape is better for me shows you may know something about tape, but tou know precious little about designing the solutions where tape might be useful.When Steve Jobs spoke about iCloud, he said that Apple was going to demote the computer to be “just another device.” So, rather than your Mac being the digital hub for your media and personal information, that job would be taken over by online services-specifically, iCloud. We had a live tape library of literally thousands of tapes, and a dedicated silicon graphics cluster predicting which data was required where in the cluster, and when, to make sure the robots would proactively load the correct tape in one of the 48 drives, so the right data would be in the right place at the right time. I’ve built what was at the time probably one of the larger compute clusters in Europe (weather predictions) and storage was predominantly tape due to the volumes of data involved. I am, in fact, neither a large enterprise nor a one-man-band, but it doesn matter. Neither of your propositions hold water, and present a reasonable, (cost) effective solution to the problem at hand. So I’m a one-man-band, so I don’t have budget, so I must get tape because it is cheap and I can do the daily dance with tape rotations and drive to bank? Are you out of your mind? As a one-man-band, time is one of my most precious resources and I most certainly won’t fuck around with tapes on the daily, especi when it is cheaper to just send my data to backblaze, or some other service. The way you’re responding to this post makes me think that you’re a small business or even a 1-man shop and if so there’s ways to do this on the cheap. Why would I use a cumbersome and error-prone technology (because humans and mechanical devices are involved, things will fail) that is more costly, especially when factoring in risks, when more cost-effective solutions are available, that carry less risk of failure? “You have the budget” is the dumbest of all reasons for implementing a given solution. So, I’m large scale enterprise and money doesn’t matter, because “I have the budget”? I can think of better ways to use my budget. I’m assuming if you’re running anywhere close to that scale then you have the budget for things like a tape library and proper off-site backup.
Bank safes cost a lot of money, and even if they didn’t, it would be a huge daily hassle to rotate my tapes.
Like most Europeans, I don’t live anywhere near any of the places you mention. Unless you’re in Wyoming, North Dakota or some other desolate spot in the country, I don’t understand why this is an objectionable thing to do. Like most Americans, I live less than a five minute drive from a bank branch office. Man, you are making some wild assumptions….