Although a fan and extensive user of "The Cloud" for backup and flash drives for passing files around optical media does have some advantages - the fact it is write once prevents tampering which is useful for official records. You could probably achieve a similar outcome with cryptographic signing but it is less approachable by a layperson.
Cathal, RAID doesn't come anywhere near the resilience of Google or Amazon or Rackspace or <<insert preferred cloud host>>. RAID only protects against the loss of individual HDDs. I hope it never happens but if you were burgled and the computer was taken RAID would help in the slightest. As Simon indicated a good cloud host would have multiple copies of your data across multiple boxes and across multiple data centres. Actually I believe that some don't even bother with replication with RAID because it doesn't add anything beyond replication across boxes.
As for dragnet surveillance this is what encryption is for.
Interesting to see people's take on this, alright. Typical polarisation
between the two methods; cloud and local-ROM. These days I'm oscillating
between the two: I no longer find it reasonable to keep my data on a
server subject to warrantless dragnet surveillance, but cloud storage is
just too awesome to pass up.
Right now, I'm using local-ROM (DVD, not bluray) to backup my data
medium-term, and I'm establishing a local cloud server that I can access
by WebDAV (think "dropbox") on my phone or laptop. If I set up RAID, I
get the same resilience as Google, with arbitrary storage, and as many
features as I care to bake in. OwnCloud is awesome for this so far,
can't wait for them to include self-updating like wordpress does.
On 02/12/11 05:48, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> I wouldn't have done that, it brought up some good points from Simon's
> end. To defend Thomas, I know a lot of scientists and engineers that
> backup or use optical for storage.
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:36 AM, CoryG <cory@geesaman.com> wrote:
>> Definitely not the place and I flagged it spam because it is.
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