"Unlimited capacity cloud storage" sincerity

As long as the registration, Baidu Cloud send you 2T, Tencent Micro Cloud send you 10T, and 360 cloud disk more unwilling to live after, sent to 36T, propaganda for unlimited capacity.

Compared with the services provided by the cloud storage service providers abroad, I think this magic should be attributed to the domestic Internet. I have used Microsoft's SkyDrive, Apple's icloud, tried Amazon's cloud storage, has been using Dropbox, all of these services provide only 5 g up and down free storage, as the main force of Google Drive a little more generous, 15G, But this is shared by all of Google's services, and my own Google Drive's 100-G cloud storage is paid for by buying Chromebook.

No more than do not know, the domestic cloud storage service provider's generosity is so impressive!

Who needs "T cloud" more

T is an amazing capacity unit, and only in the last two or three years has the PC's hard disk capacity started to hook up with T. Simply put, as long as a person does not have the hobby of collecting HD video, his personal data will not reach t this order of magnitude. Personally, more than 100 g on Google Drive is more than enough to store all my personal data (working papers, photos, personal videos, other personal data, etc.).

So why are these cloud storage providers encouraging people to step into the T era? One reason is that they provide "t-clouds" not for your needs, but for their own needs-they can show their strength and ability to win users in other areas of competition.

There is another reason why the "T-Cloud" landscape is so good--the need for the T-class is not vain if it is positioned as a storage place for a variety of resources, especially video resources. Because of the weak sense of copyright, you can always find all kinds of so-called "information" on the Internet, and to store all these potentially useful materials, it needs considerable space.

Service providers are able to provide free T-class cloud storage, to a large extent, because a large number of stored data is the same, and different users need to store the same data, the service provider does not need to keep multiple backups (this is the so-called "second transmission" feasible reasons). For example, if all users are interested in storing public video such as TV dramas and movies, then as long as the service provider has a copy of all the TV dramas and movies, it can deal with an unlimited number of users, adding almost no marginal cost to the user.

Of course, there will be some users upload a unique information, for this information, there is no way to occupy the extra storage space. However, the total amount of these users is relatively small, they occupy the space of information, the service providers can afford.

"T Cloud" there is no sincerity

Since it's free, the more storage is natural, the better it is, however, whether T-level storage is an overwhelming factor in the cloud storage service and still relies on the application scenarios that cloud storage locates.

In simple terms, there are three different scenarios for cloud storage. The first is its basic meaning, that is, the data stored in the cloud, so can be in different places through different terminals rely on the network to obtain. Then there is cloud synchronization, which can be updated with different devices, and all devices connected to the cloud store will synchronize all updates. Finally, cloud collaboration, where the same data can be updated by different users at the same time in different devices, while the cloud records all update history and keeps all devices synchronized. In all three scenarios, cloud data can be shared with others.

For cloud synchronization and cloud collaboration, the capacity of cloud storage is not the most important factor, not even important. For cloud synchronization, it is more important to ensure the correctness and efficiency of synchronization, which relies on the ability of network connectivity, and the ability of cloud systems to process data synchronization (such as reducing data transmission through differential synchronization). Cloud Synchronization This scenario may also need to consider storage capacity, and if you need to sync all the files in the cloud, the cloud collaboration scenario is almost irrelevant because the collaborative file itself requires collaboration in the drive of docs, Slides, spreadsheets, The files themselves have virtually no storage capacity. What is important here is the ability of the cloud system to handle real-time collaboration, not storage capacity.

So the value of T-class free storage is almost exclusively reflected in the storage capabilities of the cloud. For both cloud synchronization and cloud collaboration scenarios, free T-class storage itself does not increase the competitiveness of service providers.

In this sense, the domestic cloud storage service providers seem to have no sustainable development. What do you say? They almost assume that the user will not believe in himself. If users trust the cloud service providers and break the fear of privacy, they will upload more personal data that is unique and requires storage space. Even if each user put 100G of personal data into the cloud, according to the Chinese Internet user base, for each person to provide free 100G real storage space burden, probably any enterprise is currently unbearable.

This shows that the "T-Cloud" is also a number game.

Overall, the current domestic cloud storage services, the pan-entertainment characteristics of the obvious, People's first association is "search" and "watch the film" of the sharp weapon, while the foreign service providers are more emphasis on its as a tool for the application of the scene. Dropbox is a great tool for sharing in the cloud, with a lot of third-party applications using its open APIs for further cloud collaboration, while the Google Drive itself is synchronized and collaborative, and basic office operations can be done directly, There are also a number of third-party applications as extensions. Naturally, this is also the result of the interaction between supply and demand: a large number of domestic netizens like entertainment, I also provide entertainment good.

Dwel, infinite volume of cloud space is not only useful for the serious addiction? Are you in the cloud to settle those HD "fairy sister", or the cloud storage as a portable stealth tool kit, database? The different choices of the mortal beings make the different business logic and the real world which is not the same as our side.