Storage! Storage! Rhymes with Porridge (which I've never ate)

While this article is good - How Google’s New Storage Pricing Compares to Microsoft, Apple, and Dropbox - it doesn't address two other storage options: Carbonite and BackBlaze. As you may recall reading elsewhere on this blog, I use BackBlaze. I do have a Google account as well as a Dropbox account.

What's the Best?!?

https://www.howtogeek.com/347545/whats-the-best-online-backup-service leads to this:
https://discuss.howtogeek.com/t/whats-the-best-online-backup-service/70043

And I thought 8 was Big

Western Digital announces a 20TB external hard drive solution & I'm looking at Crashplan Alternative Backup Solutions.

Nerves on a Tuesday

I don't like how my laptop complained about my 4 TB EHD this AM:

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I'll just let this ride.

On a related subject and as a follow-up, I cannot use Carbonite as my strategy to back up my data. Carbonite supports a single EHD and does not support backing up the Western Digital MyCloud drive. For the EHD requirement, I have more than one I want to backup:

1. E:
2. T:
3. U:
4. Y:
5. Z:

Even if I could back up those with Carbonite, I would not be able to back up the MyCloud drive.

Thus, I am going to use CrashPlan, which does support multiple EHDs and does support backing up the MyCloud drive. On top of that, Carbonite was $100 / year and CrashPlan is $49 / year. I do feel bad that I purchased Carbonite from my friend Jeremy, who is a Carbonite reseller, but I can't see spending $100 for a software solution that doesn't satisfy my needs regarding backing up data. There's no ill will about it - it's just not a good fit.

Purring Along

I took the plunge and purchased Carbonite, a backup solution, from Jeremy M. I had talked to him for nearly a year about purchasing it and finally sent him a check on Tuesday for $100. I received the license key last night, around 10 PM, and as I expected, I was awake @ 6:30 today. I have it installed and it's purring along, happily making the initial backup to my account except...Why is nothing easy for me when it comes to technology? 

1. The first screenshot shows the laptop - e, t, u, w, y, & z are all external hard drives. I selected y: to be backed up. Then I selected z: to be backed up.
   
• I got the second screenshot about some files & folders won't be included and clicked OK.
  
• Then I see this:
  
• I want to back up multiple EHDs - I have to be able to do so - so why isn't z: selectable?
• I thought I knew. I have the y: EHD plugged directly into the laptop. The laptop has two USB slots. I use a USB splitter, which is plugged into the other slot, and allows access to the E: EHD (which is Alex's EHD I bought for his Christmas present), the T: EHD (which is currently empty), the U: EHD (which includes the W: little drive), and the z: EHD. My guess is that Carbonite doesn't see the drives connected by the splitter as separate USB connections so it balks at including them. 
• Except that doesn't make sense. If z: is seen as a EHD that can be backed up and it's connected by the splitter, maybe it's something else.
• I found the answer: per https://support.carbonite.com/articles/Personal-Windows-Backing-Up-Files-on-External-Hard-Drives, 
• "With your subscription, you are only able to back up a single external hard drive to be included in your backup. If you try to back up a second external hard drive, you will receive an error message." 
2. I can't see the two shares on my WD MyCloud drive - M & N. They are not connected via USB. I’ve already read that EHDs must be connected via USB, so I’m guessing that’s why they don’t appear as available. I want to find a solution for including them. The workaround I hope I don't have to do is to copy from the MyCloud drive to a USB-connected EHD, back it up, and then copy back out to the MyCloud drive. I would much rather not have to do that because it is a manual process.