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| Thread ID: 150920 | 2022-10-04 22:44:00 | Curious - do you subscribe to online storage? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1488704 | 2022-10-04 22:44:00 | Over the years with the use of smart devices the storage size might not be sufficient . Do any of you subscribe to online storage like Apple, One Cloud or Google? If you don't do have solutions to work within your allowance . Over the years I had to delete my mobile phone images off it and move it to my desktop PC which I use Adobe Lightroom for my photography . A number of photographers I know use Backblaze but that might not provide the same features directly related to a smart device . It doesn't for example backup images off the phone but instead requires you to sync them to a computer first . :) |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1488705 | 2022-10-04 23:16:00 | Never. I have tons of room, some saved movies too. Also have 3 back up drives, one died a while back, haven't bothered replacing it. 4 is enough for now... |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1488706 | 2022-10-04 23:38:00 | I use icloud (apple storage), only because it makes like easier for backing up iphones. But all photos are phoned home to my server (via nextcloud), where they are duplicated and backed up internally. I also pay for backblaze backup, but that's not technically storage.. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1488707 | 2022-10-05 08:46:00 | No. And I refuse to rely on the Cloud as both data security and backup are only as good as the last network reconfig. Google "Myspace data loss" if you want to see how easily it happens. Yeah, it shouldn't happen, but it is inevitable that sooner or later there'll either be a breach or a misconfig or a hardware failure that takes your data. Try an axed Cloud employee who finds they still have remote access and a grudge, or the inevitable issue of overworked techs and budget restraints that lead to an inevitable mistake. Oops. Sorry. Or maybe the San Andreas fault will rupture and take out all those Silicon Valley datacentres. If the power surges don't wreck it the shaking and collapsing ceilings will. Over the years I've gone through a crazy number of backup drives as capacities have ballooned. I've got backups of backups, and probably close to a dozen old PATA drives that collectively could back up the whole SATA lot anyway... if I ever bothered. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1488708 | 2022-10-05 18:10:00 | Same here Paul. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 1488709 | 2022-10-06 09:23:00 | I use a bit of free storage for convenience but not for anything I'm worried about loosing. Just MS onedrive for some wallpapers and google pictures for photos until I back them up manually. Honestly though I back up very little, I find the prospect of losing all my data mildly annoying at most. I have a few copies of some photo's in several different places and two copies of lossless rips of my CD collection just because it was a lot of work to rip and even for those two things I don't care enough to pay for cloud storage. More than once I have lost a lot of data or had my OS get corrupted and it just hasn't been that big of a deal to me. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1488710 | 2022-10-06 09:48:00 | No. And I refuse to rely on the Cloud as both data security and backup are only as good as the last network reconfig. Google "Myspace data loss" if you want to see how easily it happens. Yeah, it shouldn't happen, but it is inevitable that sooner or later there'll either be a breach or a misconfig or a hardware failure that takes your data. Try an axed Cloud employee who finds they still have remote access and a grudge, or the inevitable issue of overworked techs and budget restraints that lead to an inevitable mistake. Oops. Sorry. Or maybe the San Andreas fault will rupture and take out all those Silicon Valley datacentres. If the power surges don't wreck it the shaking and collapsing ceilings will. Over the years I've gone through a crazy number of backup drives as capacities have ballooned. I've got backups of backups, and probably close to a dozen old PATA drives that collectively could back up the whole SATA lot anyway... if I ever bothered. Unless you’re off siting backup media, or backing up to someone else’s house, you’re not fully protected then. If people are smart, cloud is just one prong in your backup strategy. Not the whole shebang. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1488711 | 2022-10-06 17:50:00 | I use a bit of free storage for convenience but not for anything I'm worried about loosing. Just MS onedrive for some wallpapers and google pictures for photos until I back them up manually. Honestly though I back up very little, I find the prospect of losing all my data mildly annoying at most. I have a few copies of some photo's in several different places and two copies of lossless rips of my CD collection just because it was a lot of work to rip and even for those two things I don't care enough to pay for cloud storage. More than once I have lost a lot of data or had my OS get corrupted and it just hasn't been that big of a deal to me. That system works for me as well. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1488712 | 2022-10-07 02:56:00 | Of course not for primary and only storage. Isn't the a big point of mobile devices being able to access the data when you want and ability to share them. One meets someone for coffee and shows them some photos from 10yrs back that may not be directly on the phone. Rather than saying I'll email you them tonight. I was looking at my larger free cloud storage - Google Drive 15GB and 6GB were just from Gmail. I guess I could go thru the years and delete them but to the ordinary person out there how realistic is that. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1488713 | 2022-10-07 23:25:00 | And when you talk about storage, I recall when we bought our first PC, late 70s early 80s, we had a massive 500 Mb HD and wondered what we would do with all that amount of room.:waughh: | Roscoe (6288) | ||
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