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Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

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Post by moduspol »

wkat4242 wrote: post #2

This is one of the reasons i dont like cloud. I only use it for (encrypted) backups and temporary sharing. Not for important stuff. Also i dont want my account or data to be randomly deleted due to vague terms and conditions or policies.

I trust cloud just fine--I just don't trust unsustainable business models.

You can store data on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and pay per GB per month. They price it at a level that's profitable to them, and I pay for it.

"Unlimited, at fixed (or no) cost, forever" is not a sustainable business model. If you're one of the outliers, you risk issues like in OP. If enough people are outliers, then they'll eventually have to pull the rug out.

Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

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Post by is_true »

wkat4242 wrote: post #2

This is one of the reasons i dont like cloud. I only use it for (encrypted) backups and temporary sharing. Not for important stuff. Also i dont want my account or data to be randomly deleted due to vague terms and conditions or policies.

The cloud should be treated as a cheap microSD

Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

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Post by gwervc »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #3

> And, yes, some people have asked why Tim doesn’t have other backups around, but (again) the FBI took all of his shit. I was about to say 'you should have other backups', but the FBI is a very powerful persistent threat, and might be the more important problem.

Startup idea: SaaS portal to trigger FBI raid on RAID disks, acting as a free replicated permanent archival storage. Retrieving the data is out of scope of the MVP.

Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

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Post by kortilla »

jbaber wrote: post #12
brookst wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use cloud for everything, but that’s because I did some reflection and realized that I don’t actually have any digital data that would be catastrophic to lose. Annoying, sure. But whatever. I can’t think of a single digital artifact that would be so terrible to lose that it’s worth maintaining highly redundant storage at multiple locations myself.

I thought this way until I had kids.

Catastrophic? People managed to have kids long before computers and cheap photos. They were happy with the tens of good pictures a year they managed to get on film.

Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

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Post by DeathArrow »

tedivm wrote: post #24

People really need to understand that Google is a garbage company that can't be relied on for anything. I've spent years as a consultant, and several more in the startup world, and I'd rather host all my content in us-east-1 than rely on google. * I've had customers get their cloud accounts shut down for a literal three cent billing error, * I've seen people who use Google for advertising pay thousands of dollars and…

>People really need to understand that Google is a garbage company that can't be relied on for anything.

I've heard horror stories with GCP from paying customers.

Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

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Post by matwood »

tedivm wrote: post #24

People really need to understand that Google is a garbage company that can't be relied on for anything. I've spent years as a consultant, and several more in the startup world, and I'd rather host all my content in us-east-1 than rely on google. * I've had customers get their cloud accounts shut down for a literal three cent billing error, * I've seen people who use Google for advertising pay thousands of dollars and…

Yeah, say all you want about AWS pricing, but damn if Amazon doesn't go out of their way to support things for a very long time.

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Post by rightbyte »

jbaber wrote: post #12
brookst wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use cloud for everything, but that’s because I did some reflection and realized that I don’t actually have any digital data that would be catastrophic to lose. Annoying, sure. But whatever. I can’t think of a single digital artifact that would be so terrible to lose that it’s worth maintaining highly redundant storage at multiple locations myself.

I thought this way until I had kids.

Do paper photo books of the best pics, now.

The risk of losing all your pictures in 30 years is probably like 50%.

The digital photo generations gonna have a void of childhood pictures when they get old.

Re: Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

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Post by nhumrich »

mngdtt wrote: post #27

The title is wrong. He had the option of paying for the space at least for the time that it takes him to download and archive the data himself.

Source? None of the emails shown said anything about buying additional space.
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