putting info up in the cloud

[S O F I]

In the near future, I plan to digitize all important information and documents (picture of passport, birth certificate, insurance info, college diploma, etc) and upload it into the cloud via a service like Dropbox. I like the idea of being anywhere in the world and accessing any information I might need with just Internet access and not worrying about having a physical location to store that stuff. But it seems like it's so expensive at this point. Dropbox wants $20 per month for 100 gigs. Insane.

I want something like a terabyte but only pay a one-time 50 dollar fee. I feel like it should be this cheap, and soon.

 

[Jokerman]

Okay. Thanks for sharing. (What Ristol?)

 

[Ristol]

Do you have these jokes prepared in advance, or do they come to you once you enter a thread? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[S O F I]

Okay. Thanks for sharing. (What Ristol?)

My bad, I thought I put a question in there. The question is, "Anyone feel the same way as me?"

Now, regarding you....self-censorship is best. There's nothing quite sobering like editing your own post due to realizing the joke in the post sucks.

 

[masta247]

Bare in mind that your information is not perfectly safe with Dropbox (though it is statistically safer than most other "cloud" services but still Dropbox employees can see anything you put there) as your data is not always encrypted.

 

[S O F I]

Yeah, I read about that.

 

[ARon]

#SECTION80! nice.

I was gonna bring up the privacy thing. I don't really feel comfortable with anything right now.Maybe if google had something like that I'd use it, lol, why do i trust them so much. What I do for now is just e-mail myself with an attachment of whatever I want ya know

 

[Pittsey]

I have an FTP server setup on my NAS. Maybe I'll start making use of it.

 

[Jokerman]

All those clouds are vulnerable to a big EMP. CDs and DVDs are not. That's why I do periodic optical backups of my files.

 

[masta247]

Yeah because these CDs would be so useful aften an EMP blast. Of course I know that during your eternal existence you have developed lazors in your eyes so now you listen to 2pac cds ghetto style, without a cd player. That skill might come in handy also in case of earthquakes, nuclear wars and terrorist attacks corrupting the power grid. I think I should start storing my music digitally burned into granite or titanium plates stored in an underground bunker with 5-year weed supply of course.
CDs and DVDs are more vulnerable to things that are much more likely to happen than a big EMP. Actually I'm willing to bet that there's a higher chance of a plane falling down on your house destroying your CD/DVD collection while you are out fishing than an EMP blast big enough to destroy most servers in the world. Thus a proper AA/flak cannon is needed. Nevertheless it would be pretty cool living without electronics for a few years.
Aye, I'm talking gibberish cowcrap. Goodnight.

 

[S O F I]

All those clouds are vulnerable to a big EMP. CDs and DVDs are not. That's why I do periodic optical backups of my files.

For me it's more about people not able to steal my shit. I mean, I bet some Chinese hacker could, but at least it wouldn't be the crackhead two doors down who needs to pawn my electronics for a fix. That's the beauty of putting shit up into the cloud. It's not physically there in an insecure location ready to be stolen.

 

[Casey]

Google do have a cloud storage service. Google Docs. A few months ago, they made the announcement that you can now upload and store any type of file on there. Assuming you have a decent browser, you can straight drag-and-drop files and even folders I think now too from the desktop.

And their prices are awesome, I'm probably going to cough up for 80GB of storage soon. I mean, $20 a year is fucking nothing. https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/PurchaseStorage

• 20 GB - $5/yr
• 80 GB - $20/yr
• 200 GB - $50/yr
• 400 GB - $100/yr
• 1 TB - $256/yr
• 2 TB - $512/yr
• 4 TB - $1024/yr
• 8 TB - $2048/yr
• 16 TB - $4096/yr

I have 6GB of space on my Dropbox and I've used 80% of it right now.

Bear in mind, if you have Google Music you probably won't need to use Google Docs storage space for music as Google Music allows you to upload and store 20,000 songs.

 

[S O F I]

I just got my Music Beta invite!

 

[ARon]

Holy shit i forgot all about docs. I'd probably use that if i were you

 

[S O F I]

Yeah, I think I will.

 

[Jokerman]

Use the iCloud