Where's the catch?

$60 for unlimited storage seems completely unsustainable still nobody got banned yet for shoveling TB of pirated videos onto it.
Hell Amazon even encourages piracy by engaging in a cooperation with Plex.

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Lots of data collecting to be had. Just encrypt your files before uploading.

ACD has deleted the accounts of a few people for having large amounts of data that was being used to stream via PleX, even with on the fly encryption.

see /r/datahoarder and /r/plex

This.


Currently sitting at like 9TB or some shit.

I use oDrive for syncing, and encrypt some things with Boxcryptor. Nothing deleted, no notices yet.

could be a good deal for NASA

>paying to pirate
gtfo

You would need to upload 30 TB before this is a better deal than sia. That said anybody want to do data arbitrage?

>sia
top meme

>cooperation with plex

Yea, they already hit a few people with that. Locks your account if it detects something.

got a source?
only found one thread on /r/plex and that guy got unbanned within 2 days.

>data arbitrage

I love the idea. It'll turn into an arms race of making ever better artificial intelligence to make the fake profiles seem real and to identify fake profiles from the real ones.

>tfw 2Mb upload limit australian quota.

I've often wondered what life would be like if I could ditch my 16TB of hdds and travel to nepal with all my hentai and Sup Forums pics at the tip of my fingers.

I'll probably never have kids so I probably can't pass any of my data onto any one.

>$60 for unlimited storage

$60/month?

Use case: I need to store 100 TB for five years.

A 4TB HDD cost $100
=> 100 TB HDD = $2500 for 5 years.

Amazon:
$60/month for unlimited storage

=> $60*60 months = $3600 for 5 years.

Not many people need to store more than 100 TB. And most people need to store it for more than 5 years. HDDs can easily last 10+ years if used rarely.

$60 per year.
$60 per month would make it viable.

Delete your anime my friend. Feel the weight come off your shoulders.

>$60 per year.

Really?

>willingly giving your data to a company that regularly datamines

Nice meme kid.

>every user has several TB of stuff
>have one lonely 120GB ssd that's never been more than 40% full

The fuck do you guys put in there?!

>your data
but thats the joke.
everybody uses it to store data of movie companies.

they can datamine all they want. when you start hoarding TB's of movies, and game ISOs, it starts to weigh you down. Not important enough worry about losing but not trivial enough to delete.

>falling for the cloud storage meme

>not storing your data interspersed between terabytes of useless garbage
shiggy diggy

it's not enough to avoid the botnet

you must wage war on it

I'm assuming games, you would be surprised how quick a 1tb drive will fill

>Not encrypting your data before storing it in the cloud

$60 a what?
Month?
Day?
Hour?
Second?

They're trying to become a major player in the cloud business. It's pretty common for most web services to take a hit to build a consumer base before they try to make a profit.

Just looked, it is $60 a year.

They're already a major playing in the cloud business, if not the largest player...

The only people bigger have been in the game since the '90s (like Akamai...) and are so large and entrenched (Akamai has peering with almost every ISP on the planet... even small little shit local ISPs, they mean business when they say they're the fastest CDN on the planet and soon off...)

Well that's not so bad for backups, unless you've got 1gbps both ways, it's not really feasible for a whole lot else.

>I guess maybe if you kept cached metadata local it's be alright for music too at anything over 50mbps (don't want to start saturating your link to play some spicy 24/96 FLACs)

Shit for me with 18/1.

2TB games
700GB Music
500GB in TV and movies
250GB in VMs
150GB in Linux distros
Plus I help test nightly builds of Fedora, those are 1.5GB apiece, 2 a night, and I have a months worth on hand at any moment

>18/1

>/1

>The fuck do you guys put in there?!

1,3TB RAW DSLR/TIFF scans
500 GB VM images
100 GB Crypto wallets
100 GB FreeSurfer + data sets
100 GB research PDFs
200 GB FLAC music
100 GB MIDI/Virtual piano software
250 GB programs/software
400 GB 3D/Engines/Gamedev
100GB Visible Human Project
100 GB various literature
1,2 TB Porn
600 GB games
1TB TV
500 GB Movies
400GB installed programs
1TB various random unfinished torrents
1TB reddit data set
1TB temporary project data and VMs
500GB Various files

Not much I can do about it m8.

Can't afford to move to an affluent suburb with oversaturated nbn
Can't afford to move to a some estate are with opticomm fibre
I'm not a member of parliament that depite stating that no one would need more than 20mbps, has a government funded 1000/1000mbps connection since 2007.

Get two accounts and get double infinite storage.

>1.2TB of porn

is this a meme or do we all have 1.2TB or 1.3TB of porn? Am i the only one noticing everyone always has this amount?

I only have ~75 GB. Mainly because most of the time I'm fapping to cam girls.

Perhaps it's because we all strive to, but fail, in keep it under 1TB?

Or perhaps we're all roughly the same age, and we started storing our porn at the same age, and on average consume roughly the same amounts per session so over time we end up with the same ballpark amount?

Or perhaps we are just storing the amount that is economically the most feasible, so most people today can store around 1TB and still have space for their other shit on an average HDD.

>that picture

...and another MGTOW was made that day.

>1,2 TB Porn
seek help

>Where's the catch?
They keep your data, even when you stop using it.

There you have it, that's the catch.

>AWS
>trying to become major player

hi retard

these people are digital hoarders that never watch/play/read/listen to 99% of the stuff they have but goddamn it they NEED IT

It is extremely obvious that he isn't you as he can clearly handle all that porn.
Don't project your own insecurities onto others, user.

Bullshit, this hasn't happened yet.

Just a few guys had their accounts blocked and unblocked.

For $10 more you can get 2TB of local storage you fucking retards.

Why do want the NSA spying on all your cheese pizza habits so badly? You might as well just turn yourself in.

13.5 GB of porn
I copy things I like, but it is more like 150 MB of really good stuff, the rest was me going "oh, that's sexy, save" and it just adding up over the years, mostly from /s/. Started collecting in 2006, when I got my first computer to myself.

>>paying to pirate

Isn't this basically what private trackers and VPN's are?

If you think a WD Blue HDD is even remotely as good of an idea as cloud storage, you are an idiot.

Even if you go through the requisite rigamarole to make the contents of your hard drive available to you over the internet, what happens when the software/router/ISP/electricity/whatever at your house takes a shit while you're not there? That's an awful lot of points of failure. Not to mention the possibility of the drive itself failing, either all at once or gradually and silently.

Hell, if you live in a bad neighborhood, niggers could kick in your door while you're not home and steal the physical box.

And, even when this is all working the way it's supposed to, enjoy the 5Mbps upload on your residential internet connection.

its a fish

Last I checked there was a filesize download limit, 10GB? But that was before the unlimited option I think, otherwise I would have jumped on it.
Let me see if I can find the source.

I have an echo and I was going to move my music to their cloud... Then read the policy. The record labels make Amazon inspect anything you add and tag the copyright

lmao

5GB per file apparently
reddit.com/r/qnap/comments/53mojt/psa_amazon_cloud_drive_now_offer_unlimited/

Anyone know what kind of speeds you're getting?

lmao

Technically it's paying for storage of what you've pirated. Personally, I'd prefer to just use an external hard drive, rather than keep things in the cloud. Local storage > network storage.

Just upload 1,000 5gb encrypted archives to backup all you're stuff.

Hello NSA. Nice to see you here again!

Oh boy, 1 drive that could fail and take my shit with it, awesome.

>Hello NSA

Hello. We are always watching.

I know. Is NSA going for Trump like the FBI is?

It doesn't matter who wins.

(Citation needed)

What are you watching right now?

>5400 RPM
>64MB
I'll take a hundred...

In case you don't realize it, pirating is pretty costly and a lot of fucking work.

>Where's the catch?
Horrendous speeds.

You're ignoring everything else that goes along with storage. Don't get me wrong I prefer to have storage on hand in my own hands, but this is truly no different than having cash at home vs having cash at a bank.

When you store the data yourself at home you're banking on nothing happening physically to your home, no floods, no trees falling on your roof, no fires no emergency situations of any kind, you're banking on no corruption of files, you're banking that the interface will exist in five years for you to be able to retrieve your data, and you need the space for all those god damn hard drives.

The benefits are of course, your data is always in your hands, it is a lot quicker than uploading 100TB of data into the internet, god that would take for fucking ever in most of flyover USA.

>pirating is pretty costly and a lot of fucking work.
This, researching reliable hard drives, debating having a lot of small HDs vs just 2 big ones in a RAID, and going to build my own NAS soon

Anime, boot ISOs, VMs, movies, music, development files, books/pdfs, a few games too

I don't save anything beyond a mildly lewd but not nude picture, personally.

>trying to decide what storage to use

What are you storing and what is it for?

Movies collection, Music collection (FLAC because autism), Anime collection, books, software etc. Idealy I would love to have this streamable from the NAS but I didn't research that yet

I wanna ask you people a couple of things, how long have you been using computers for, and how many times have you had data loss/corruption?

And if you prefer local storage or cloud storage.

If it was me, I'd make a backup up to a online storage service and keep it all in a NAS who cares how, make a raid I suppose. It does not sound like important enough data that couldn't be recovered through other means. if however it is important to you, think redundancy, the more you have the better.

Since early 2000s, I've had 3 HDDs drop dead outright, and maybe 5 to 8 ish get corrupted out of the blue.

Well, all the "important" stuff I have on Github/Gitlab so that's okay.
For the RAID, i'm just wondering if it's cheaper to get a few small drives (20 1TB -> RAID 1 -> 10TB total storage; vs 2 8TB -> 8TB total storage).
I mean, you especially want hard drives from different batches so there's less risk of multiple breaking down too.

>5 to 8 ish get corrupted out of the blue.
>blue
As in, WD Blue?

no

Phew.

Which WD are recommended for archiving? Blue/Purple? Is black worth it? Does streaming affect the decision?

Blues and reds are good. Blacks are loud and are generally not good for archiving. They're better for putting your Steam folder in.

My theory is most people have never experienced data loss or corruption of truly important/irreplaceable data like pictures and documents and don't understand/know/care all the things that can possibly maybe go wrong, what you're taking on when you store locally and what you're giving up when you store online.

Probably. I've lost some seriously sad stuff to lose over the years from my drives dying. Some of the nudes I've lost still aches my heart to think about. I still don't use online storage but I've long since built a general purpose file server with RAID 1 and local NAS.

>Your 1 drive could fail!

Ever heard of a RAID?

I've had two experiences of data loss of shit that was not important to me but it was important to my brother and it caused a multilevel meltdown it truly made a impression on me and since then I have not stored anything on that was connected to a computer it will go on a airgapped drive and that has evolved to a second airgapped drive as a backup of anything important.

that sort of behavior makes you look suspicious af people think you got weird porn or something

porn

>$60 per year
>user upload 100 TB of data
>rates change to $10 per month per TB

Nobody ever reads the TOS. Did anyone here check to see if they can screw people over this way?

>handle all that porn.
lmao what does this even mean

hoarding pornography is a legitimate personality defect

>Check
>1.23 TB
Wow, well I guess its true.

Can wait the plan to be decreased just like onedrive.
>tfw onedrive decreases my free storage because people used it for uploading CP

>Where's the catch?

Section 5.2 Suspension and Termination.

Your rights under the Agreement will automatically terminate without notice if you fail to comply with its terms. We may terminate the Agreement or restrict, suspend or terminate your use of the Service at our discretion without notice at any time, including if we determine that your use violates the Agreement, is improper, substantially exceeds or differs from normal use by other users, or otherwise involves fraud or misuse of the Service or harms our interests or those of another user of the Service. If your Service Plan is restricted, suspended or terminated, you may be unable to access Your Files and you will not receive any refund of fees or any other compensation.

>we determine that your use violates the Agreement, is improper, substantially exceeds or differs from normal use by other users

>substantially exceeds or differs from normal use by other users

>differs from normal use by other users

>normal use

And of course if you decide not to renew your service you will lose access to your data. Before cancelling your service you will have to download terabytes of data, oh wait...

>We may terminate the Agreement or restrict, suspend or terminate your use of the Service at our discretion without notice at any time, including if we determine that your use violates the Agreement, is improper, substantially exceeds or differs from normal use by other users,

Once you are in, there is no getting out.

>mfw all everyone wanted to do is to find a way to use gmail 1gb of storage as a online storage service and everyone thought it was a lot of storage

>2016
>free 15gb onedrive
>it's not enough
>why can't I hold all these gigabytes

>2016
>Falling for the cloud meme
Unless you're a fucking normie that needs to have all his dicksucking pics on hand every day to show other disgusting normies why on Earth would you need all that space? Physical storage has never been cheaper and it only gets more so by the day.

Filthy coalburner

>In case you don't realize it, pirating is pretty costly
>paying2leech
wew

with my 100 KB/s upload, I think that I'll pass

Same here.

see >>normal use

I hate vague shit like this, which of course is always there for """""unlimited""""" offers.
State the fucking space and bandwidth limits clearly or fuck off.

nope, that's the maximum amount of porn you can have without trying to get more porn consciously. It's written in our DNA

>tfw 15 KB/s is my max, i usually get below 10
I had to wait a few hours to backup my pictures folder, it was a nightmare...

No because private trackers aren't exactly paid services?

Just set a continuous upload at 30kbps with low QoS priority. You'll upload ~15GB every week without disrupting your shitposting.