So my fiancée purchased a 4TB my cloud for me last Christmas. Initially I was going to use it to store tons of movies and tv series on but the Amazon fire tv has rendered the need to do that useless.

All of my pictures are saved on my iPhone; 164GB, and backed up on I cloud. I also rarely use my laptop and if it stopped working today there is nothing I'd really miss on it.

Am I stuck with a paperweight here or can it still be useful. Thanks in advance.

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Posted by colorchangintiger

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Posted on 5/25/15 at 10:34 am to JAE20

I'll take it off your hands.

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Posted by kywildcatfanone

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Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:53 am to JAE20

My first thought is that it was given to you as a present by your fiancee, I would use it in some way.

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Posted by JAE20

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Posted on 5/25/15 at 12:06 pm to kywildcatfanone

Exactly why I'm trying to figure SOMETHING out

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Posted by Street Hawk

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Posted on 5/25/15 at 4:26 pm to JAE20

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All of my pictures are saved on my iPhone; 164GB, and backed up on I cloud.

Don't iPhones max out at 128GB? How are you storing 164GB worth of photos on the iPhone? Also how much do you pay for the huge amount of iCloud storage? I know you only get a puny 5GB free with the phone.

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

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Posted on 5/25/15 at 4:41 pm to JAE20

It sounds like you have your files backed up to one other location, so use the 4TB drive as your second backup location, which completes your optimal home backup solution. Start torrenting blu-rays or something; that'll fill in the rest of the space pretty quickly.

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Posted by JAE20

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Posted on 5/25/15 at 4:57 pm to Street Hawk

128...164 I guess I was off by a couple of gigs. I only have 10gb's of photos and videos on my phone.

I don't use Icloud, they are just uploaded via photostream to my laptop. 20gb's of I cloud storage is only .99 a month, but I guess I could save them a 3rd time to the cloud.

As mentioned in the OP I don't see why I should download bluerays when I just stream on the Amazon fire tv/kodi.

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

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Posted on 5/25/15 at 6:39 pm to JAE20

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As mentioned in the OP I don't see why I should download bluerays when I just stream on the Amazon fire tv/kodi.

Less compression would be the main reason I guess, and access to more recent movies unless you're using the illegal Kodi addons anyway. Other than that, if you truly have no files to store, then you have no use for a thing meant to store files.

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