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Now, I just buy a 1TB or 2TB drive for a hundred or so, and copy everything I can on to it. Then I just store it somewhere. Always some in protected boxes, fire safes, safe deposit boxes. They just sit there.Never seem to have to go hunt for a file. It is one of those "just in case" things that make you feel good like insurance for the kids but you hope it is never used. I know several other people who do the same thing. Some things though that you might want immediately you can store online in Mozy or gmail even. But that is for info, records or even old pictures, not music or videos. |
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08-12-2012, 02:30 AM | #47 |
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08-12-2012, 03:17 AM | #48 | |
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The problem everyone has is that everyone wants a super-mobile device--an iPad, a Galaxy something-or-other, a Fire, and those all come with fairly limited storage. At the same time, everyone wants access to terabytes worth of media. It's a conundrum waiting for a wise solution. For now, my wife and I have rolled our own dropbox-style set up with a Pogoplug and Goodsync. There was a bit of a learning curve, but we can use Goodsync to sync both of our laptops to one another, and then my laptop (with up-to-date files) to our Pogoplug drive, which we can then access from any device with a web browser, anywhere in the world. And there's no storage size limit--we can always upgrade the drive to a larger one and still have all our files ready to roll. For now, I like having all my files on my laptop--I have a huge hard drive, so it's no problem. But I'm seriously considering the Slate, and in that case, I think I might just keep my documents at hand but access my media through the web interface. Keeps my files in a "local storage" situation, allows me enjoy a tablet. |
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08-12-2012, 06:39 AM | #50 |
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08-12-2012, 10:54 AM | #51 |
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08-12-2012, 03:21 PM | #52 | |
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I don't think senior management ordered it, but I do think (because they have admitted it), that people within Google did intentionally design and deploy wardriving code. |
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08-12-2012, 07:59 PM | #53 | |
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I have three friends who are IT managers in companys selling data storage and management to medium sized businesses. They have all built in back doors and in more than one case booby traps into the systems. I have asked them why and get a longwinded explanation involving paranoid revenge scenarios or the more honest "Because I can". Generally their employers don't know about it officially, but if I have been told about it by them personally I am sure many others have been as well. I try not to store any business or banking or other confidential information even on my own hard drives except for one external drive I have for that purpose and do not attach when I am online. Not that I think anyone particularly wants my info, but seems sensible (and easy and cheap). Like they say with asassination, no-one is safe if someone really wants to kill you, no-one is safe if they really want your data. Cloud storage with Google is no more dangerous than gmail with Google or Hotmail with Microsoft or the many social networking sites. If someone targets you, even for advertising purposes, they can get information a lot of easier ways than by searching through your cloud data or the whole world's cloud data. Helen |
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08-12-2012, 10:01 PM | #54 |
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Very much agreed. They may not have any intention of doing it now, but they can if they want to at any time in the future. They are a profit-driven company after all. I just don't like to see this possibility becoming true, regardless of how small that possibility may seem to be.
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