100 gig free cloud storage?

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100 gig free cloud storage?

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The first million who sign up get 100 gig free.

Or so they say.

Waiting list for processing.

I'm number 72,849 on the list.

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Re: 100 gig free cloud storage?

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A bank has legal obligations to protect your safe deposit box, and the money you deposit. (Caution - see Cyprus).

What obligations does any Cloud service have to protect your information (not troll, sift, database, filter, and resell) other than their say so? And from whom do they protect it (geographically dispersed backups, subpoena, physical capture of the servers, etc.)?

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Yup. Why i'll never out any sort of critical data in the cloud.
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Re: 100 gig free cloud storage?

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Fairportfan wrote:Yup. Why i'll never out any sort of critical data in the cloud.
Eh... all I've got on Google Drive is my password safe.

Of course that thing is encrypted and has it's own unique and rather long password, so it would be of no use to anyone else anyway... :)
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I have several TB of backup drives for my art, programs, content extras, apps, pictures, and music, plus other things I think merit a save. Other than the new toy tablet, I don't have reason for cloud storage. If they want my Weber, Ringo, Bujold, Asimov, and other books of the nerdy persuasion, more power to them. My private life is offline, protected by sharp and shiny. The few pics of me online are set in layered passwords for HQ sizes.

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Since the last little glitch, i have 5.25 terabytes of storage on this machine.

I may need more...
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I'm usually a cheerleader for anything high-tech, but this "cloud storage" stuff....I dunno. :| Like Yogi Berra said, "the future ain't what it used to be."
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