iDisk – the speed demon (NOT)
One thing that MobileMe account includes is an iDisk, a “cloud”-based disk that conveniently can be mounted on your desktop. You can use it to store various files, etc. Once in while I hear the advice that “use your iDisk to backup your critical documents” and it does sound very tempting. But, then I start to wonder where these people live. Because iDisk is too slow to be of any practical use whatsoever. A few hours ago I started an incremental backup that took more than 2.5 hours to complete – although the complete size of the files is just 385MB. Despite...
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