How much do you trust in cloud base devices?

Bruno.88

Bruno.88

Bruno.88

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Hi, with the actual situation happening with the My Cloud Home Service Outage from WD, it makes me wonder how safe our data files in reality is...
what you think?
 
You are right about it, my real concern is regarding the type of safety this devices provides, as im finding out they can leave you in hand with your data...
example: this situation thats hapening at WD, is more than just a couple files missing, theres business people really hard affected by it...
 
call me auld fashioned, but... don't trust cloud based anything, at all... period. Data saved to local drives with physical backups has been unreliable enough for me without getting into that mess
 
Cloud storage is very much a tertiary/convenience thing for me and I find the push towards it extremely short sighted. My main files are backed to a NAS device on my network which also replicates the data to an external drive which I round-robin periodically and I also keep other offline copies. I then have some files mirrored to cloud storage either due to being important or for convenient access.

I don't trust any data on cloud storage is secure against privacy breaches, etc.
 
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The only cloud data I’m happy with is game saves. Everything else is stored on physical drives. Anything extremely important is on more than one drive incase if hardware failure.
 
I'm in a similar boat and made comments about it recently. I inherently just don't trust that the data is going to be impervious to some external market force that sinks the company and loses the data. Just look at recent history and how some very very large firms have gone under in a fraction of time .... there is little stopping that happening to datacentre setup.

Whilst I do like to use OneDrive for its integration into windows and as a means to quick access to the same files across multiple devices, I don't view it in any way as a failsafe back up.

I have a NAS drive which keeps a copy of data I want to keep, I'm currently looking at the options around having some physical copy of the data I can store away. BD-R optical may still be my best option. I only really want to store less than 2TB of stuff, so a box full of discs may still be the viable option.
 
Donnie Fisher said:
I'm in a similar boat and made comments about it recently. I inherently just don't trust that the data is going to be impervious to some external market force that sinks the company and loses the data. Just look at recent history and how some very very large firms have gone under in a fraction of time .... there is little stopping that happening to datacentre setup.

Whilst I do like to use OneDrive for its integration into windows and as a means to quick access to the same files across multiple devices, I don't view it in any way as a failsafe back up.

I have a NAS drive which keeps a copy of data I want to keep, I'm currently looking at the options around having some physical copy of the data I can store away. BD-R optical may still be my best option. I only really want to store less than 2TB of stuff, so a box full of discs may still be the viable option.
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the problem is: even having a nas it doesnt makes "resistant" to be blocked, example what it just happen at wd, when they somehow only had the software to login local device having to go server first ( i know it sounds silly but thats what had happened, making all users being private from all data for days....)
 
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