Serious techie question: would you put your personal data on cloud or external hard disk?

krafty

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• Feb 17, 2017

• #1

i have come across pple who put theri personla data on cloud and some on external hard disk, which one will you choose to back up your data?

 

zhihau

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• Feb 17, 2017

• #2

Why would anyone put biodata on the Internet on a cloud server or external hard drives is beyond me. You mean it's that difficult to remember everything about yourself?

 

krafty

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• Feb 17, 2017

• #3

then where do you backup your data, like pictures and documents?

 

zhihau

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• Feb 17, 2017

• #4

Thank you for the clarifications. Random data like documents and photos etc are best kept on paper and celluloid respectively. You need plenty of data storage space, cloud storage would be my choice, but nothing personal should be kept and/or revealed online.

 

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johnny333

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• Feb 17, 2017

• #5

Depending on how important the data is you might want consider having several backups because storage is quite cheap. A 2TB external HDD costs only $150 or burn them onto DVDs.

If you have photos you may also want a scanned copy because I have older family photos that have faded because of age. Burn them onto DVDs & make fresh copies every few years because DVDs do rot over time.

 

wikiphile

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• Feb 17, 2017

• #6

Personal data: Porn

 

krafty

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• Feb 17, 2017

• #7

actually, my point is, look at iphone, you can backup your contacts and all data on their server. it just like are you comfortable with handing your house keys to your neighbour when you going for a long holiday?

 

zhihau

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• Feb 17, 2017

• #8

I try to remember the phone numbers of my family and friends. If I can't remember the number, too bad.
That's the reason why I keep to a small number of friends :o:o:o