Google| Subject | Re: Adobe's Low hanging .... ? |
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| Date | 07/15/2014 03:53 (07/14/2014 21:53) |
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In article <vfv8s9516jf75ugsknatnnr6ifc4fl8fot@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:
there are people who have absolute faith in hard drives, dvds too. so what?Eric StevensnospamnospamEric Stevens
if you were paying *any* attention at all to this thread, or even the post to which you replied to here, you'd realize that the entire point is that the cloud is *not* the sole repository for data.
In some cases there is. There are many ill-advised people of the smart-phone brigade who believe that the cloud is a safe place to keep all their messages, images and videos that have overflowed from their phone.
that's no different than having only one copy on a hard drive.
it has nothing to do with the cloud.
Yet there are people who have absolute faith in the cloud.
the cloud is nothing special. people try to bash the cloud with all these horror stories about what if they go away.
what if your hard drive 'goes away' by failing, something that is *far* more likely to happen?
what if bitrot makes a cd/dvd unreadable, something that is *far* more likely to happen?
that's why people make backups. any one of those can go poof and the data is backed up on another media. it's just a hassle to replace whatever failed. nothing is lost.
now, if someone puts all their eggs in *one* basket, whether it's the cloud, a hard drive or a dvd, they are at risk, but again, that's a risk of having one copy. it has nothing to do with the cloud.
furthermore, the cloud is going to be much, much more reliable than anything a home user can do and even corporate users. just about all cloud services have multiple data centers for redundancy, so if a disaster strikes one, nothing is lost. most users do not have multiple offsite backups and of those who do, it's rarely up to date since it's a pain to keep it current.
You did not help when you said "a cloud outage might be annoying, but the data won't be lost". This can be interpreted as meaning that even if the cloud goes down the data will still be there when it comes back up. Well, it might be be but there is no guarantee that it will be.i meant what i said. no data is lost. the cloud service can go away entirely and without waring (which almost never happens but nevertheless) and the user *still has the data on their device* plus other backups.
all they do is find another cloud service and resync. it's a hassle, but that's the extent of it. it's also the same as if one of their hard drives failed. they buy another and copy everything to it.
again, the cloud is not any more of a risk than anything else. if anything, it's *less* of a risk.
yes.nospamEric Stevens
one copy is *always* a risk no matter where it is, cloud, local or offsite.
Which is not what you implied when you wrote "a cloud outage might be annoying, but the data won't be lost". ... data won't be lost. ... data won't be lost. ... data won't be lost. ... data won't be lost. ... data won't be lost. Oh yeah?
07/10/2014-
