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Old 05-07-2016, 02:22 PM   #91
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Originally Posted by shalym View Post
With all of the options available today, why would anyone keep their precious files in only one place??
One reason that people might not do cloud backups are bandwidth quotas. I am unfortunate that I live in one of Comcast's "test" areas for quotas and have a 300GB month quota. I run up against it every month, and have been unable to backup everything I want to due to cost. I calculated up what it would cost in overages to backup my entire raid array at one point (a little over 8TB used) and it would cost well over $1,000. So it's not backed up to the cloud. Comcast has announced they're raising the quotas to 1TB monthly starting June 1st, so I'll be able to start backing it up then. I'll try to devote 500GB a month to it, but it'll be over a year to back it up fully.

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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
This one always amuses me. There is lots of discussion about copyright and the license associated with ebooks. Everyone seems to want it more like paper books. But, here is one place that everyone seems to think it must NOT be like paper books. It seems that authors/publishers/retailers are expect to replace the version you bought with an updated version for the rest of your life.
Personally I don't care about that. The only times I would feel an update should be mandatory is if the original e-book was a total formatting disaster. Otherwise I don't go back and re-download looking for an update.

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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Seagate 3TB external that decided to die--under warranty but if it had been the only backup, that would have been a slim consolation.
Oh god, Seagate 3TB drives... I built my raid array using five internal Seagate 3TB drives. Three failed before the warranty was up, one just after and one is still alive but has a health status that amounts to "going to die any day now." Those things are just total crap, and I'll never, EVER buy a Seagate hard drive again as long as I live. If someone gave me one for free, I'd be extremely leery of using it. On the bright side, thank goodness I used raid 5. I was able to swap in new drives (HGST this time) when each one failed and rebuild.

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Pfffft. I would never trust myself to remember everything. That's what cave walls are for.
So you're saying the cave paintings are just someone's backups?
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