Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams?
Kelly@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There are on going cost with running the service so if new customers stopped signing up they would go broke when they run out of money. (i.e. like a ponzi scheme)
Unless they invest your seed capital and pay for your services from growth. This would work when times are good, but could fall apart during any significant financial crisis.
The current offer for the named service is asking for us$800 for 1TB, if they followed the 5% rule that would leave them with us$40 per year to provide the service.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You can easily buy 3 10TB HDDs with that money, plenty of redundancy, no need to have someone else do it.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
I mean, cloud is more of an offsite backup solution.
Of course, the hardware you control is better, but fires are quite common, one fire and poof, your data is gome, and most people aren’t rich and don’t have second homes to set up a server in, nor do they have a friend willing to let them set up a server in their house. So cloud it is… 🤷♂️
Kelly@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I know a few people who have a HDD exchange going. A couple of times a year they drop off a HDD with their current backup at a friends house, then take the old one home to use next time.
It offline, so it can’t be accessed easily but its also protected from device failure,power surges, etc.
Its no good as a daily backup but its fine for static data e.g. videos of the kids as they were growing up.
If its just a HDD in a static proof bag it doesn’t take much room and can be stored easily.
Its got issues but it does offer a cheep offsite backup
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Depends on where you live, I literally never met a person whose house burned down, but our houses are not mostly wood.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I live in USA. Every house is wood 😓
I see fires happening throught my city all the time (and no, I do not live in California). I think there are houses that got burned that are withing walking distance of me. I think there are one that had a fire right on my block, I didn’t see much, but I saw fire trucks and a lot of sirens, and someone’s house has their window broken, presumably by firefighters looking to see if anyones there.
Having stuff in your home is just not safe enough. I mean, if that’s like arguing “You don’t need home insurance because fires are rare”. Not a good idea to gamble if your precious pirated movies and cat photos are at risk.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Is there anything that can be installed on a hdd that would create your own personal cloud device (that can be accessed over a network)?
TheFogan@programming.dev 6 days ago
I mean if you put those HDDs into like a synology NAS or something you could run nextcloud or syncthing or several other network hosting file tools.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Nice! Thanks!
Windex007@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You can set up a “personal cloud” on a machine in your house that you can use as a “cloud” from anywhere. There are a lot of free software options to achieve such a thing.
“Nextcloud” it a pretty broad way to do that. You can run it from an always-on desktop.
There are a ton of nerds (myself included) who do this kinda thing, and we have our nerd communities on Lemmy and elsewhere. The general term is “self hosted”.
ATDA@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Oh yeah. Get a cheap laptop, pi, or PC. Whip Linux and casaos on there. Instant web based environment for file access. Add jellyfin or Plex for media streaming. Setup a VPN service to access it remotely. Takes some googling but well worth it.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Cool! Thanks!