Yeah, about that ‘cheep’ cloud storage…

Yeah, maybe tossing all of the physical media and using the cloud to store your memories wasn’t the best move?

Especially if you’ve got 70 years of archival footage that could disappear at the drop of a hat, as this St. Louis PBS station has learned.

They stored 50 terabytes of data with a cloud storage company, that company went kaput, and now they’re having to fight tooth and nail to get that data back.

Full article, HERE at Not the Bee. h/t Stretch

We’ve had a lot of conversations about ‘cloud’ storage here. In reality it is nothing more than somebody else’s computer that you’re storing stuff on.

And how good is that ‘security’, or is there any? I know these places ‘claim’ there is airtight security (yeah, right), but how much stuff has been hacked in the last 10 years?

How many ‘actors’ have had those ‘private’ nudes hacked? How many companies have had business plans hacked? How many companies have their entire proprietary dataset hacked? How many hospitals (remember that whole HIPAA thing)?

How do you know who really has access to your private data? Some bored tech somewhere scanning your data for any .jpgs, or???

In the early 2000s, I watched a group of white hat hackers hack a windoze network in less than five minutes from start to root access on a system they had NO access to. Sigh… And that was 20+ years ago.

And lets not forget the Google debacle, where they said ‘anything’ you put on a Google drive belonged to them, copywrite or not…

Personally, I never have, and never will use or trust the cloud. I prefer physical media that I control. I use terabyte hard drives for both backup, and ‘spare’ storage, in addition to dumping my critical stuff to thumb drives, one of which is kept off site.

What y’all do is up to y’all, but you should be aware of the possible issues. Just sayin…