From my own point of view, network disk has several advantages:
1. Important files can be backed up to the "cloud" to prevent data loss caused by hard disk crash. For the storage space provided by Google and Microsoft, their security and stability are much higher than their own hard disk storage. From this From a perspective, it actually gives your data a safer home.
2. You can access the files you need anytime and anywhere. I guess everyone has the experience of copying files everywhere with a USB flash drive or mobile hard disk. You write a document at home, take it to the company, revise it, take it home again... and copy it. After copying it, I can't tell which one is the latest. But with tools such as network disk, you can actually abandon the U disk. Because the files are stored in the "cloud", they can be accessed from any client computer.
3. Some network disks also provide sharing, file editing, conversion and other functions. Very practical.
There are currently several network disk tools in China, such as 163's, qq's, nanodisk, etc., but they are very restrictive in use, have small space, and cannot save files for a long time, etc., and are not practical. I basically don't use them.
At present, the better network disks include the following (only the free ones will be introduced, and the paid ones will not be mentioned):
1.Skydrive
Microsoft Live product. 25G free space!! I once again lamented the wealth of M$. Office documents can be seamlessly connected with live office. Stable.
Disadvantages: Files cannot be transferred in batches. If you want to transfer a directory with multiple levels of subdirectories, it will be very troublesome.
2. googledocs
This was originally a sharp tool used by Google to combat MS Office, and it turns out that it has indeed attracted many users. In the past, it could only store office documents, which was not suitable for network disks. However, in January this year, the restrictions were relaxed and any document can be stored. type of files. It is extremely powerful and has the best functions among all cloud storages currently. Because cloud computing itself is Google’s strength.
Disadvantages: There is only 1G of free space, which is basically enough to store office files. If you want to store programs, photos, etc., I am afraid it will be difficult to do.
Similarly, basically only a single file can be transferred, and it is very inconvenient to store multi-level directories.
3. Adobe Acrobat document service
This is the main platform used by Adobe acrobat to implement its cloud computing. It integrates cloud storage, online collaboration, and document management.
5G free space. You can transfer almost any file. It claims there is no limit on file size. I tested it and it seems that it has problems with files over 50M like skydrive.
Disadvantages: It also only targets a single file. Multi-level directories are basically not supported.
4. Microsoft Live Mesh. Home page http://www.mesh.com/ . Microsoft's powerful synchronization tool, which is still in the testing stage, not only has the function of synchronizing files, but also can remotely log in to the client machine. The concept is very advanced. Free storage space 5GB.
The disadvantage is that it is still in the testing period, not very stable, somewhat unintuitive to use, and the synchronization speed is slow.
I haven't used it carefully. MS's live mesh, live sync, and azure platform make me a little confused and I'm not very clear.
Now I solemnly launch the cloud drive tool CloudDrive developed by me!
It is actually a cloud storage client that uses Adobe Acrobat’s free 5G storage space. Need to download to local and install. The biggest benefits of using this tool are:
1. Simply drag folders or files to the CloudDrive window, and they will automatically be uploaded in batches in the background without affecting other operations at all.
2. Completely free, green, no plug-ins.
3. The tool is very small, the installation package is only over 1M, and it occupies very little system resources. Because it is completely implemented using Win32 API (not even MFC is used)
4. The speed is currently about 60-100KB/s, which is not bad.
If you are interested, you can use it: http://www.driveoncloud.com/ , currently only the English version, version 0.68, future versions will support multiple storage spaces such as ms and google.