View Single Post
  #10  
Old October 24th 12, 02:04 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware
Yes
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 22
Default How many hard drives (and size) do you place in your build these days?

Darklight wrote:

-- snipped --
Cloud base storage is just an external hard drive that some one else
maintains!!!

What a difference it makes when you change a name of some thing.


A rose by any other name is still a rose :-)

That doesn't change that using cloud based storage involves a matter of
trust about 24/7 accessibility (e.g., internet interruption), viability
of company (will the company providing service remain in business),
what happens to your data if the business shuts down, what procedures
does company have in place to maintain your data in case its equipment
breaks down, what happens if government sticks its nose in wanting to
look over your data - data stored by a third party may not have the
same legal protections, how well protected is one's data on a cloud
based storage compared to maintaining it in a private network and last
to what degree you want to shift responsibility and care of your data
to someone else.