The cloud is just someone elses computer, you could pay 19.99 a year for 100 gbs of storage on some shady corporations server somewhere for them to inevitably jack up the price. Or you could not be an idiot and buy a 128 gb flash drive for 14.99 one time and have that storage forever.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Flashdrives are not forever storage. Flashdrives corrupt literally all the time. And old flashdrives that sit around also corrupt while not in use. If you care about your data, store that data in multiple places. Follow the data hygiene rules. 3 2 1: 3 copies of the data, on 2 different storage mediums, with 1 copy off-site.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Got it so buy a second drive, and pay $15/mo to the cloud storage company.

[–] lapping6596@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

If you're willing to deal with managing it, 125gb on s3 seems to cost about $3 per month.

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