Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams?

• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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… 🤷‍♂️

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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    • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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      • MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Man, the hidden upside of Europe being largely deforested: not enough wood to build houses with.

        Only the inner frames are wood here and still covered in plaster wall and such. Most parts of my house are not flammable, let alone a fire hazard.

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• Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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)?

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  • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nice! Thanks!

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  • 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”.

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  • ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Cool! Thanks!

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