hey i discovered a new cloud storage app today that gives you a intial 5 gig upload space and a additional 5 per refferal giving you ten and also another important note this one gives you a upload limit of 1024 mb which i a lot more than the usual ones thought i would share if you sign up it gives you and me more space here is a invite link thanks guys
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hey i discovered a new cloud storage app today that gives you a intial 5 gig upload space and a additional 5 per refferal giving you ten and also another important note this one gives you a upload limit of 1024 mb which i a lot more than the usual ones thought i would share if you sign up it gives you and me more space here is a invite link thanks guys
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If you don't mind my asking, what benefit have you seen to using this over something like Google Drive or Dropbox? Considering you can easily get 50gb free on dropbox via a hack.
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If you don't mind my asking, what benefit have you seen to using this over something like Google Drive or Dropbox? Considering you can easily get 50gb free on dropbox via a hack.
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well for one its a new service so you can easily get lots of storage fast via invites i am up to 25 gigs with 4 invites seems more fluent and the upload limits are a lot higher up to one gig vs like box and some others only give you like 300 mb limit and the dropbox hack goes away over time this a service that won't take you storage away i used to have 100 gigs with db but now only have like 8 you can send emails without the hitch of email attachment limitation and much more
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I stumbled across and interesting fact the other day that I had never noticed. Picasa will allow you to upload video. As a bonus the max file size is 1gb per video on PC (for some reason the Picasa software on Mac is limited to 100mb), sorry Mac user.
Once the video is uploaded Google converts the file to Flash. This is exactly the same principal as YouTube, but there is no video length cap. It may take some time for the file to be converted. In my experience with a 250mb avi episode of Weeds, it took about 20 minutes to upload the file and for it to be converted for playback. I do have a very fast Fiber based connection so the times may be different for those with cable or DSL.
Once its uploaded and ready to play its as simple as going into the Gallery app and clicking on the video you want to play. The quality is just about perfect and streams without issue on 3g.
Now for the downside. Picasa only gives you 1gb of storage for free. The prices for additional storage are not too bad though as you can see below.
20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)
80 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)
400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)
1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)
2 TB ($512.00 USD per year)
4 TB ($1,024.00 USD per year)
8 TB ($2,048.00 USD per year)
16 TB ($4,096.00 USD per year)
Now for the upsides to this problem. As it stands right now If you decide to not pay for your storage again next year, Google will NOT remove your files. You simply can not add more files.
Additionally you CAN add more then one Google account to your phone and have it sync properly.
The best part about this is that it will play flawlessly on ANY android that has the new Gallery. I might be incorrect but it needs to be the Google gallery as the HTC version on my friends phone does not show his picasa folders. I have tested this on my G1 running 2.2 and the video plays flawlessly.
I currently have a few friends and we are going to chip in on getting 1tb and start dumping our movies on there. Anyone else interested? Hit me up on PM if so.
That is very cool. Good find. I am not certain I would trust my "library" online due to the potential legalities. For the money this would be a simply trouble free solution. I am still hoping someone looks down a server variation for people to use from their media servers\centers. I would feel more comfortable with that.
I agree, but since this folder would NEVER be made public it should not raise any flags. I hope.
I'm wondering how long it would take to transfer 4TB.
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I'm wondering how long it would take to transfer 4TB.
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How young are you??? Lol. Might be waiting a while.
Good find. I don't see a problem with legalities if they are put in a private folder. I will try this with some of the movies on my computer and report back
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Just noticed that all Xperia devices are eglible for free 50GB upgrade for your box.com account. I just installed box.net to my Xperia Tablet S and blam, got 50 GB upgrade for lifetime Apparently this has been running since 2011:
https://support.box.com/entries/22264368-sony-ericsson-50gb-promotion-faq
I NEVER saw any advertisement about this when I bought my XTS nor I have ever seen this mentioned anywhere. So it was quite a surprise, pleasant one. Together with free 50GB for Dropbox (Samsung device) I have plenty of cloud storage now
Decided to share this just in case somebody missed this offer, at least you get something good out of XTS...
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with box.com, just regular user.
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Just notices that all Xperia devices are eglible for free 50GB upgrade for your box.com account. I just installed box.net to my Xperia Tablet S and blam, got 50 GB upgrade for lifetime Apparently this has been running since 2011:
https://support.box.com/entries/22264368-sony-ericsson-50gb-promotion-faq
I NEVER saw any advertisement about this when I bought my XTS nor I have ever seen this mentioned anywhere. So it was quite a surprise, pleasant one. Together with free 50GB because of my Samsung Galaxy device I have plenty of storage
Decided to share this just in case somebody missed this offer, at least you get something good out of XTS...
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with box.com, just regular user.
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Includes sts, I had the upgrade too.
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Thanks. It works great. I now have 50gb on box. Tbh I dont think it'll be used but irs jice to have anyway. Cheers again
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Box has a small file size limit but it should be good enough for photo backup (or an incremental backup program with file splitting). Thanks jappaj!
Hi everybody,i bought this tablet 2 days ago,only the 16 gig version, however , when i turned it on i followed the update prompts,everything good,then i look at my storage expecting 11 gig space,but no,just 5 gigs yet i only have a few gigs apps .any ideas? Ive attached screenshot.
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Hi everybody,i bought this tablet 2 days ago,only the 16 gig version, however , when i turned it on i followed the update prompts,everything good,then i look at my storage expecting 11 gig space,but no,just 5 gigs yet i only have a few gigs apps .any ideas? Ive attached screenshot.
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Hi, rtudds...
Actually that looks about right.
See my attached screenshot from my 16Gb Nexus 9 by way of comparison. You'll be surprised at at just how quickly your storage gets eaten up, with even only a few apps installed.
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Checkout this (free) app from PlayStore for a more detailed analysis on how your internel storage is being used...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
Hope this helps.
Rgrds,
Ged.
That seems about right to me. In my experience, Android should use up just under 3GB on it's own.
Also, if you didn't know, you can tap where it says Apps there and get a break down of every single app and how much space it's taking up (sorted conveniently by size).
Hey guys.
I had a Note 4 and decided to give it to my sister and now wanting the S6 Edge. I had a 32gb note with a 64Gb card with about 38GB of music.
And Im now leaning towarda the 64gb model. Want to know peoples experience with their chosen storage. What did you choose and was it enough? Did you wish you went a step higher?
With the amount of data you had earlier, it's obvious that you need at least 64GB device. Don't forget that the S6 does not have expandable storage.
I had an LG G3 32GB with a 64GB card. It was a overkill for me, using less than 20GB of data on the card and a few more on the device. As for internal storage, for a 64GB unit, only about 55GB is available to you, so you gotta base your usage on that.
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With the amount of data you had earlier, it's obvious that you need at least 64GB device. Don't forget that the S6 does not have expandable storage.
I had an LG G3 32GB with a 64GB card. It was a overkill for me, using less than 20GB of data on the card and a few more on the device. As for internal storage, for a 64GB unit, only about 55GB is available to you, so you gotta base your usage on that.
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TBH I could survive with 32GB. But I got the 64GB. I got the Nexus6 in 64 for that reason. Well because I could!
My iphones are 128GB as well. Apple keeping 16 instead of 32 for the entry device is silly. Many will be frustrated when their (nearly full) devices cannot be updated to later iOS versions!
I probably would have got the 128GB S6 if it were available.
But I won't lose sleep over not having it.
OTG works fine for bulk transfers.
Air droid on our 5GHz AC network is plenty fast even for copying full roms and is it ever convenient!
I went for a 64gb. My old phone had 32gb and I was forever deleting stuff off it, I would have liked the 128 more but yeah at least I can now have a few games and more music.
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I went for a 64gb. My old phone had 32gb and I was forever deleting stuff off it, I would have liked the 128 more but yeah at least I can now have a few games and more music.
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32gb is enough for me, i actually store music on google music , you can upload your music to it using google music manager on PC , can have 50,000 and single file can be 300mb , of course you need data as it will stream, as im on unlimited don't have any issues and plays instantly , and when moving to another device can just log in its so quick, how things have progressed, i really dont have any use for sd cards now !:good:
I've only got a few albums (3 or 4) on my phone at the moment. I only get 1.5gb data so it's not enough to stream off the net, I would use it up to quickly. I have 15 games on here, some I'm only trying and deleting. I Still have 32gb free
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I got the 64. I could possibly have settled for the 32gb, but i prefer not having to worry about it, and be able to install a ton of different games that i probably wont play. The problem with 32 is that it becomes 21 after the system, and in my case 10gb less after you synchronize spotify, leaving me with 11gb for games/apps/roms/backups etc.
So 64 is a nice middle point, i feel like it's only in a few unique cases that 128 would be necessary.
I also came from a 32gb note with a 64gb sd card.
blue13x said:
Hey guys.
I had a Note 4 and decided to give it to my sister and now wanting the S6 Edge. I had a 32gb note with a 64Gb card with about 38GB of music.
And Im now leaning towarda the 64gb model. Want to know peoples experience with their chosen storage. What did you choose and was it enough? Did you wish you went a step higher?
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When switching from my Note 4 to my S6 edge and trying to determine the capacity I needed, I just looked at the total combined storage of what I was currently using on my Note 4. I understood that some of those files were OS related files.
I didn't feel like dealing with the hassle of deleting files just to switch devices and I was close to the 64GB threshold, so I went with the 128GB. I'm glad I did.
I'm a heavy Cloud user, all my music is on Google, pictures are stored on MS OneDrive, etc. I had a 16GB iPhone 6+ and wasn't too limited. Picked up the 64gb just because it wasn't too much more and gave me plenty of space.
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I'm a heavy Cloud user, all my music is on Google, pictures are stored on MS OneDrive, etc. I had a 16GB iPhone 6+ and wasn't too limited. Picked up the 64gb just because it wasn't too much more and gave me plenty of space.
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I don't mind using Google or Dropbox, but Microsoft OneDrive has the absolute worst upload rate of any online storage out there.
I tried uploading pictures to OneDrive several times and the upload speeds were painfully slow. After a quick Google search I realized it was a Microsoft issue that they refuse to fix. Microsoft keeps somewhat acknowledging it as an issue and releasing "how to" instructions tips in order to fool people into thinking they are helping, but they're not addressing the hardware issues related to the problem.
So much for that 2 years/100GB of space for free through OneDrive because I consider it pretty worthless.
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When switching from my Note 4 to my S6 edge and trying to determine the capacity I needed, I just looked at the total combined storage of what I was currently using on my Note 4. I understood that some of those files were OS related files.
I didn't feel like dealing with the hassle of deleting files just to switch devices and I was close to the 64GB threshold, so I went with the 128GB. I'm glad I did.
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everyone wants that. But its crazy expensive. Dont want to pay too much, cause I know a Note 5 is right around the corner.
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everyone wants that. But its crazy expensive. Dont wanna pay too much, cause I know a Note 5 is right around the corner.
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That's pretty much the story of my life. Something is always right around the corner. Truth told, I'll probably buy the Note 5, but there's no guarantees. I'm pretty happy with the size of the S6 edge.
The other thing I considered when pondering space was the fact that things start running slower when you start running closer to capacity. I like to leave plenty of overhead for the sake of keeping it nice and smooth.
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I don't mind using Google or Dropbox, but Microsoft OneDrive has the absolute worst upload rate of any online storage out there.
I tried uploading pictures to OneDrive several times and the upload speeds were painfully slow. After a quick Google search I realized it was a Microsoft issue that they refuse to fix. Microsoft keeps somewhat acknowledging it as an issue and releasing "how to" instructions tips in order to fool people into thinking they are helping, but they're not addressing the hardware issues related to the problem.
So much for that 2 years/100GB of space for free through OneDrive because I consider it pretty worthless.
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Sorry it isn't working for you, OneDrive has been gangbusters for me. I uploaded about half a gig and it didn't take that long at all. Sitting happily with my 1.12TB of storage and not planning on switching back any time soon.
16 would have been enough for me. I stream most things
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16 would have been enough for me. I stream most things
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16 is more than enough for me too.. I stream everything from my 14 tb plex server
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I opted for the 64GB version, only because the 128GB one wasn't available here (Samsung decided not to release that model here)! I keep some of my work docs on my device and occasionally need to access them when I have zero signal so cloud storage isn't an option for me unless it's personal pics or music or other unimportant stuff. If I need extra storage on top of the 64GB I'll just get me an OTG flash drive, but so far I still have about 35GB free so I should be ok!
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I have 26 gig of music, 104 apps, 13 gigs remaining on my 64. This is adequate for my needs, I've been on android for the start and have a consistent app package with the occasional new app coming on and an old app riding off into the sunset. You likely either know exactly how much you are using and whether that is on the move or not, if in doubt, get more. But then I'm a bit of a slut.
128GB. Version you can never have too much space. I use my phone every day and couldn't live with out it any more. When I'm that dependant on it why wouldn't I get the largest capacity?
Decided to take the 128gb myself. Didnt want to deal with storage problems...but crazzzy expensive here in europe.
64GB is plenty. Trying to sell the 128GB at a decent price will be harder once the Note 5 comes out as well, so went with the middle option.
I am curious about the storage arrangement in the 1 TB version. Can anyone send me a screenshot of it? I already have 512 Gb version, thinking of ordering 1TB for myself.
I would assume the same amount of bloat but just larger total size
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I would assume the same amount of bloat but just larger total size
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That's why asking for a screenshot if anyone has one. Well thanks for replying.
I've seen some posted in r/samsung or r/s23 can't remember which
I have the 1TB version. Is this what you're looking for?
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I am curious about the storage arrangement in the 1 TB version. Can anyone send me a screenshot of it? I already have 512 Gb version, thinking of ordering 1TB for myself.
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I have the 1TB version. Is this what you're looking for?
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Thank you so much. Gonna gift 512 to dad.. ordered 1 TB just now.
Out of the box, no apps installed
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Ankitaadi said:
I am curious about the storage arrangement in the 1 TB version. Can anyone send me a screenshot of it? I already have 512 Gb version, thinking of ordering 1TB for myself.
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also note that 512gb is actually around 475gb so 1tb will actually be around 930gb. Samsung includes the lost storage space as part of the system so it may appear like the bloatware is taking up more space than it actually is.
cledee said:
also note that 512gb is actually around 475gb so 1tb will actually be around 930gb. Samsung includes the lost storage space as part of the system so it may appear like the bloatware is taking up more space than it actually is.
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This explanation makes no sense. Google Files does not report the same large system storage and it also rounds to 512GB. Then when you look at the Play Store, which doesn't do the rounding, and then compute the math, it still doesn't make sense.
Samsung report:
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The math doesn't add up between the three sources.
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This explanation makes no sense. Google Files does not report the same large system storage and it also rounds to 512GB. Then when you look at the Play Store, which doesn't do the rounding, and then compute the math, it still doesn't make sense.
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The math doesn't add up between the three sources.
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That is because every GB of storage will have 1000MB instead of 1024MB. Every MB here will too have 1000 KB instead of 1024KB. The same is true for each KB. Hence, a storage drive advertised as 1TB will have 1000,000,000,000 bytes which is ~931GB in terms of base 2 system.
1gb is supposed to be 1,024 mb but you are getting around 1,000 mb instead for each gb.
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That is because every GB of storage will have 1000MB instead of 1024MB. Every MB here will too have 1000 KB instead of 1024KB. The same is true for each KB. Hence, a storage drive advertised as 1TB will have 1000,000,000,000 bytes which is ~931GB in terms of base 2 system.
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Do the math of the storage discrepancy and it still doesn't add up between the three sources. The interesting thing is that Windows reports 357GB/461GB is available. 512GB would normally be 476GiB so there is another 16GB being taken up, probably for overprovisioning, but the 357GB matches what Samsung's storage app reports as being available at least so even if the individual numbers are wrong (which they absolutely are and it makes no sense the way they've done this), at least you can take the amount available as being correct.
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