kelpdiver wrote:
SushiEater wrote:
And what happens if their server goes down? And don't tell me it is not possible. Those hackers love hacking servers especially those containing data.And what if for some reason or another they decide to go out of business?
It is totally stupid to use remote servers to store data.
I live in earthquake country.
I live few mile from San Andreas Fault. So what?
Some live in hurricane land, or tornado, or flood plains. Some just live in areas with a lot of burglars. It's totally stupid to keep all copies of your data on site.
It is. Read my other post. I don't keep all data on site. And I also have big dog.
One fire wipes you out. And it's nearly guaranteed that any offline backup (like safety deposit boxes) don't get updated as often as they should. So you may be losing weeks or months of updates. I can update as often as I want, and I can verify the backups as often as I want (and with automated processes).
Chance of that happening is very slim. Probably 1000000 times slimmer than crashed RAID 0.
And if your internet service goes down (very good chance for many reasons) you would not be doing anything you described above.
Downtime is irrelevant for backups - if they're down for 3 hours, why would you care?
If the earthquake, flood etc... hits, you will not have internet for a while and you will not have backup either. And it could happen for many other reasons.
It is a valid concern for businesses using it for operations, however few of them are competent at datacenter management. The cloud companies are far more reliable. It's just that when they have a hiccup, many companies get hit at once. Very visible.
Going out of business? A legitimate fear if you shop for the lowest rates. I use Amazon who is going nowhere.
I simply don't trust my data to anyone but me. Your backup maybe automated but people who work there are not. Someone can and will read your files. Amazon can get hacked.
Data loss? You're the one flying without any sort of parachute. They would be using RAID6 at a minimum, along with incremental and full backup sets.
Read my other post what I do. I am not going to repeat myself.
Security is pretty low on the list of problems. Again, the cloud people run SaaS as their core competency. Few companies can match this - their core competency is whatever business they're in.
The more security they have the more pleasure it would be for a hacker to break in.
If you would bother to read what actually I did to "eat up" of the SSD life you would understand. And I don't do it anymore. It was more of the experiment to prove few things.
You refuse to repeat it- keep saying look it up from a few weeks ago. I translate that "I don't really want any more scrutiny of the facts," so I ignore it for the most part. Someone whose workload is truly write dominated may in fact do better with R0. But most people are 90% reads or higher.
Just for you: I took a lot of my large panos and reprocessed them on SSD. It took couple of weeks. And after that SSDlife reported a year less than I had before. So translate all you want but you still be wrong.
If you're saying now that you don't do this (whatever) any more, then perhaps your justification for slower R0 doesn't stand anymore.
It wasn't because of the speed. I did it because of the speed and stop doing it because of the SSD life.
Frankly, if speed matters and your pano work requires wearing down SSDs, it may still worth it for the performance gains.
So you do know what I did after all. As far as performance gain, it wasn't much if not at all. I wasn't counting the seconds.
$200 for a 240GB drive (Or 650 for the 1TB 840 EVO) that needs to be replaced every 3 years is cheap for a power user. But you're not paying me to solve your problems, so I leave it to you.
I am not paying you to be involve here and distributing the disinformation and yet you are still here.
My problem is in your head only. Just get it out there before it eats you up.
Like I said before there is nothing you can say that will stop me from using RAID 0 which I have been using for a very long time now. The same thing applies to overclocking that allegedly shortens life of the CPU or could even burn it.
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