Another Miracle Device: I just got an email about a simple backup device for a computer. InfinitiKloud costs $50 with a 64GB MicroSD card and plugs into a USB port. The built-in...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I just got an email about a simple backup device for a computer. InfinitiKloud costs $50 with a 64GB MicroSD card and plugs into a USB port. The built-in software prompts you to choose files to back up. Like other products advertised online, the ad runs for several thousand words. You could also buy a 64GB flash drive from Amazon for about $10.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

They prey on (help?) people who know little about computers (and have no desire to), file storage, and the like.
Something like "This widget will do all the work for you.". Like a photo stick.
Best to learn about files, storage, and their manipulation.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Jerry, thanks for alerting any members that may not know better.

Cheers,
Chris

Dannj

jerryc41 wrote:

I just got an email about a simple backup device for a computer. InfinitiKloud costs $50 with a 64GB MicroSD card and plugs into a USB port. .....You could also buy a 64GB flash drive from Amazon for about $10.

I’ve seen ads for a number and of these devices and I don’t get it either. Where’s the magic?

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

It reminds me of counterfeit Chinese goods where their biggest cost is in their producing an authentic looking package.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Longshadow wrote:

They prey on (help?) people who know little about computers (and have no desire to), file storage, and the like.
Something like "This widget will do all the work for you.". Like a photo stick.
Best to learn about files, storage, and their manipulation.

digit-up Loc: Flushing, Michigan

jerryc41 wrote:

I just got an email about a simple backup device for a computer. InfinitiKloud costs $50 with a 64GB MicroSD card and plugs into a USB port. The built-in software prompts you to choose files to back up. Like other products advertised online, the ad runs for several thousand words. You could also buy a 64GB flash drive from Amazon for about $10.

Heck!! You failed. To tell us where we can get one or two, cheaper if you get two?...LOL.....................RJM

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

It's like many fishing lures they catch more people than fish.

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

Dannj wrote:

I’ve seen ads for a number and of these devices and I don’t get it either. Where’s the magic?

There isn't any!

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

Longshadow wrote:

< snip > Best to learn about files, storage, and their manipulation.

I've been saying that to my wife for about 25 years when she says she can't find something on her computer and I ask her where she saved it and she says "what?"

If it was anybody else I'd tell her to find it herself, but I still like to eat and do other things, so . . .

Flyerace Loc: Mt Pleasant, WI

It appears that "if it appears to good to be true, it is" etc is just not being practiced any more. Everyone has just that little bit of extra money they don't mind losing. Who is going to make a Federal deal of being cheated of $50? The bigger problem is when the bad guys go on a spending spree. People have lost all sense of being practical. Why do we need to keep reminding them?

htbrown Loc: San Francisco Bay Area

jerryc41 wrote:

I just got an email about a simple backup device for a computer. InfinitiKloud costs $50 with a 64GB MicroSD card and plugs into a USB port. The built-in software prompts you to choose files to back up. Like other products advertised online, the ad runs for several thousand words. You could also buy a 64GB flash drive from Amazon for about $10.

I have more than a terabyte of photos. I'd need 25 of these just for my photos, never mind whatever else I might have. And my experience with thumb drives is they are not too reliable. Think I'll look for a different solution.