At least someone didn’t steal my PC.
Used to have my mom set up with that but once she got a smart phone and started taking lots of pictures and copying them to PC, their free tier didn’t have enough (I always found their interface a bit clunky and strange too). Moved her over to Google Drive which is sufficient for her, and her documents etc also get backed up regularly to external storage.
I use a combination of an external HDD, Onedrive, and a hosted system I have offsite.
I sort of miss the days of rotating my DLT tapes weekly and hearing their little symphony every night.
Yep, nothing is immune, that’s why a cloud service (especially a free one with no guarantees) is just one tool in the arsenal.
I’ve found onedrive to be surprisingly reliable. Google used to be pretty buggy but seems to work decent these days. Still don’t feel it is quite as trustworthy though. If MS had a major event with Onedrive, they’d lose one of the main selling features of MS 365 (everyone would start just buying the cheap grey market office keys that don’t include 1TB backup). Google is using it strictly for data mining and wanting to convince you to use their ecosystem of online office tools.
Basically it is a decent source of revenue for MS so they can afford to invest more in it.
I find $2.85 a year affordable for 500 GB at IDrive for storage and another 500 GB for backups.
As much as I hate subscriptions, this and Bitwarden have been worth it.
Yeah she doesn’t need nearly that much, I think google is 10GB and is plenty for her needs. Worst case, I get her MS 365 and she can use Onedrive (while MS doesn’t want you to use onedrive as a full backup solution it is relatively easy to get it to do that).
All of them include version history that doesn’t count against your quota (at least iDrive used to, not sure if they still do) which is a nice feature too. But they’re limited to a number of versions and/or days, my external HDD has enough to save about 3 years of versions, assuming I don’t rename my entire music and video collection frequently.
There was one time where I went to open some tax docs from the previous year and found the PDF was corrupted at some point. Having that year old version was a life saver.
I don’t miss retrieving jobs spread across multiple tapes
That brings back bad memories of late nights.