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What are you (and members of your unit) using for data storage? Where do you store your files, pics, unit e-pubs, etc?
We all create long, archaically formatted military documents, powerpoints, pdfs, etc.
Where do you keep yours for handy recall and reuse, especially as you move from base to base or forward deploy?
We all create long, archaically formatted military documents, powerpoints, pdfs, etc.
Where do you keep yours for handy recall and reuse, especially as you move from base to base or forward deploy?
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 18
My unit used a share drive on the intranet. It hardly ever worked, always went down, synched wrong, etc. So we were allowed to use CD-Rs. As you can imagine that was very inefficient.
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Maj Ahron Oddman
Yea the inefficiency is actually driving me nuts right now. Well thinking of it is driving me nuts. I'm working on non-DoD computer using commercial, cloud storage, so I'm doing ok. But thinking of how inefficient and how immobile, or non-expeditionary as Marines say, our data is, drives me crazy. And when I think of the growing knowledge base of our RallyPoint community, I think of 100,000s of hard drives, share drives, and how difficult it is to share and pass on that information, especially across branches. We can always email, but some files are too large for email, right? On my google drive, I can click one button and share a working copy of document with dozens of people, and we can work on it at the same time; it updates in real-time!
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CPT Zachary Brooks
MSG Huffman, you beat me to it. I was going to say we upgraded to killobytes decades ago.
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I use Dropbox for my personal stuff it is easy to check on any of my multiple devices (phone, tablet and computer).
Officially I tried to use AKO Files but I find it slow and the storage limit is too small to have all the files I need. In a hurry I just email it to myself but can be a pain to locate files later on.
Officially I tried to use AKO Files but I find it slow and the storage limit is too small to have all the files I need. In a hurry I just email it to myself but can be a pain to locate files later on.
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