Cloud Storage

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Have a server with approx. 15Tb of data stored on it, mainly films and music.
Have never really been a fan of cloud storage but realise this is probably the way forward, especially if I want to access my files from almost anywhere.
Bloke in work recommended BackBlaze, and seems to be decently priced.
Any of you cunts use a cloud storage solution? If so, what would you recommend?

[Vexed]

 

It's certainly off-net so far as the general internet is concerned. Military-grade encryption at every level means that it would take longer than the universe has been in existence to even work out the size of the drives, let alone what they contain.

Not sure why your even bothered about me, my data and how I use it; all seems a bit attention seeking by a proper Billy No-Mates to me. You do things your way and I'll do things my way.

I guess I am amused by you wriggling about on the hook trying to give the impression you know what you're doing, when it's obvious you don't. Off-net. Military Grade encryption. Helmet. 

Well, I have a system that's worked flawlessly for me for well over 15 years and you're amused.

That's got a win-win for me written all over it. Thank me later.

How very Partridge. Needless to say you had the last laugh. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Well it's not 'off net' (whatever this is grandad speak for) if you want to access it from anywhere else is it? I dont think you know what you're doing Michael. 

 

It's certainly off-net so far as the general internet is concerned. Military-grade encryption at every level means that it would take longer than the universe has been in existence to even work out the size of the drives, let alone what they contain.

Not sure why your even bothered about me, my data and how I use it; all seems a bit attention seeking by a proper Billy No-Mates to me. You do things your way and I'll do things my way.

I guess I am amused by you wriggling about on the hook trying to give the impression you know what you're doing, when it's obvious you don't. Off-net. Military Grade encryption. Helmet. 

Well, I have a system that's worked flawlessly for me for well over 15 years and you're amused.

That's got a win-win for me written all over it. Thank me later.

[WHU(Exeter)]

Have they got a new PacMan on it, that’s better than any other version yet?

[Vexed]

Plenty of security if it's off-net.

Anyhow. The main issue is having someone competently explaining, to those who don't understand these things, the difference in, say looking at PORN!!! from a local file and looking at exactly the same PORN!!! from somewhere on the cloud.

Well it's not 'off net' (whatever this is grandad speak for) if you want to access it from anywhere else is it? I dont think you know what you're doing Michael. 

 

It's certainly off-net so far as the general internet is concerned. Military-grade encryption at every level means that it would take longer than the universe has been in existence to even work out the size of the drives, let alone what they contain.

Not sure why your even bothered about me, my data and how I use it; all seems a bit attention seeking by a proper Billy No-Mates to me. You do things your way and I'll do things my way.

I guess I am amused by you wriggling about on the hook trying to give the impression you know what you're doing, when it's obvious you don't. Off-net. Military Grade encryption. Helmet. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

There's no security advantage to running your 1990s nonce NAS. 

Plenty of security if it's off-net.

Anyhow. The main issue is having someone competently explaining, to those who don't understand these things, the difference in, say looking at PORN!!! from a local file and looking at exactly the same PORN!!! from somewhere on the cloud.

Well it's not 'off net' (whatever this is grandad speak for) if you want to access it from anywhere else is it? I dont think you know what you're doing Michael. 

 

 

It's certainly off-net so far as the general internet is concerned. Military-grade encryption at every level means that it would take longer than the universe has been in existence to even work out the size of the drives, let alone what they contain.

Not sure why your even bothered about me, my data and how I use it; all seems a bit attention seeking by a proper Billy No-Mates to me. You do things your way and I'll do things my way.

[wils]

Not sure why anyone would need to keep 15 TB of music and films, unless they are your own work you are archiving.

I’d keep,say, 1 TB of the most favourite stuff and then just keep the old disks. 


 

 

About 13Tb are rips of all my DVD's, Blu-Rays and 4k discs - probably in excess of a 1000 in total (with zero porn). Not everything is available on the various streaming services, and I'm fucked if I'd pay to watch a film I already own.
As they were taking up too much space, I offloaded the DVD's and Blu-Rays to a local charity shop.
The 4k discs, and all my CD's I've retained.

They are normally just £3.50 to stream on demand. So you’d need to be watching more than 20 of your films a year before you break even on your storage fee. Suppose you made that calculation already. And I thought I watched a lot films. 

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Not sure why anyone would need to keep 15 TB of music and films, unless they are your own work you are archiving.

I’d keep,say, 1 TB of the most favourite stuff and then just keep the old disks. 

 

 

 

About 13Tb are rips of all my DVD's, Blu-Rays and 4k discs - probably in excess of a 1000 in total (with zero porn). Not everything is available on the various streaming services, and I'm fucked if I'd pay to watch a film I already own.
As they were taking up too much space, I offloaded the DVD's and Blu-Rays to a local charity shop.
The 4k discs, and all my CD's I've retained.

[Vexed]

So you really don't understand security then. OK - another subject for you on which to brush up your wisdom.

Doing so might help take your mind off porn and realise that not everyone thinks like you.

There's no security advantage to running your 1990s nonce NAS. 

Plenty of security if it's off-net.

Anyhow. The main issue is having someone competently explaining, to those who don't understand these things, the difference in, say looking at PORN!!! from a local file and looking at exactly the same PORN!!! from somewhere on the cloud.

Well it's not 'off net' (whatever this is grandad speak for) if you want to access it from anywhere else is it? I dont think you know what you're doing Michael. 

[BRANDED]

Not sure why anyone would need to keep 15 TB of music and films, unless they are your own work you are archiving.

I’d keep,say, 1 TB of the most favourite stuff and then just keep the old disks. 


 

[Mike Oxsaw]

They use home computer standard disks and just replace them a lot which is why they're cheap and presumably slow. I'd be going with AWS personally depending on how frequently all this, ahem, 'data' needs accessing. 
Home NAS is about the most 1990s solution you could do and it has no advantages as far as I can see. Except fending off op yewtree for ten minutes longer while they break your door down perhaps. 

So you really don't understand security then. OK - another subject for you on which to brush up your wisdom.

Doing so might help take your mind off porn and realise that not everyone thinks like you.

There's no security advantage to running your 1990s nonce NAS. 

Plenty of security if it's off-net.

Anyhow. The main issue is having someone competently explaining, to those who don't understand these things, the difference in, say looking at PORN!!! from a local file and looking at exactly the same PORN!!! from somewhere on the cloud.

[Vexed]

Interesting. Some limitations around that it seems though. You aren’t offloading the data, can’t access it from other places and Reddit says it’s slow. But maybe none of that is a problem for your use case?

They use home computer standard disks and just replace them a lot which is why they're cheap and presumably slow. I'd be going with AWS personally depending on how frequently all this, ahem, 'data' needs accessing. 
Home NAS is about the most 1990s solution you could do and it has no advantages as far as I can see. Except fending off op yewtree for ten minutes longer while they break your door down perhaps. 

So you really don't understand security then. OK - another subject for you on which to brush up your wisdom.

Doing so might help take your mind off porn and realise that not everyone thinks like you.

There's no security advantage to running your 1990s nonce NAS. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

 

Yes mate.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing

Interesting. Some limitations around that it seems though. You aren’t offloading the data, can’t access it from other places and Reddit says it’s slow. But maybe none of that is a problem for your use case?

They use home computer standard disks and just replace them a lot which is why they're cheap and presumably slow. I'd be going with AWS personally depending on how frequently all this, ahem, 'data' needs accessing. 
Home NAS is about the most 1990s solution you could do and it has no advantages as far as I can see. Except fending off op yewtree for ten minutes longer while they break your door down perhaps. 

So you really don't understand security then. OK - another subject for you on which to brush up your wisdom.

Doing so might help take your mind off porn and realise that not everyone thinks like you.

[Vexed]

Unlimited?

 

Yes mate.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing

Interesting. Some limitations around that it seems though. You aren’t offloading the data, can’t access it from other places and Reddit says it’s slow. But maybe none of that is a problem for your use case?

They use home computer standard disks and just replace them a lot which is why they're cheap and presumably slow. I'd be going with AWS personally depending on how frequently all this, ahem, 'data' needs accessing. 
Home NAS is about the most 1990s solution you could do and it has no advantages as far as I can see. Except fending off op yewtree for ten minutes longer while they break your door down perhaps. 

[wils]

Unlimited?

 

Yes mate.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing

Interesting. Some limitations around that it seems though. You aren’t offloading the data, can’t access it from other places and Reddit says it’s slow. But maybe none of that is a problem for your use case?

[Mike Oxsaw]

Have a server with approx. 15Tb of data stored on it, mainly films and music.
Have never really been a fan of cloud storage but realise this is probably the way forward, especially if I want to access my files from almost anywhere.
Bloke in work recommended BackBlaze, and seems to be decently priced.
Any of you cunts use a cloud storage solution? If so, what would you recommend?

 

Plenty of "off-line" solutions. I've got 3 synchronised 40Tb NAS I use for storage, one in the UK and 2 elsewhere, all inter-linked via VPN.

Storage is as cheap as chips at the moment and if you've got a bunch of unused disks lying around you can coral them into one big virtual drive as a (USB) storage back-up.

2 of my servers cost a bag of sand each once fully configured, which I did over a few months to spread the cost out. I can access (stream) that data from anywhere that has a decent internet connection, which is most places, these days.

The benefit is that, being physically in-house, there is much less chance of somebody assessing your files and putting you somewhere on their political spectrum/selling that assessment to others. No chance of any fee increases down the line, either.

 

Textbook oldschool paedo setup that. Who the fuck needs that amount of stuff stored in 2025? Massive red flag. 

 

 

The only thing resembling a red flag here is your jam-rag.

If you absolutely must have someone watching your every move, go in balls deep on cloud storage and streaming and only use on-line software like Office 365 & Acrobat.

Your data/personal information, not mine, so I give a fuck that can't even be arsed to fly.

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Unlimited?

 

 

Yes mate.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

 

Textbook oldschool paedo setup that.

 

 

I'm assuming you've got it down to a fine art son?

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Cheers Mike
Interesting that the more tech-savvy on here would seem to favour an on-site as opposed to cloud solution as no ralternative ecommendations forthcoming.
All good, and sort of mirrors my feelings with regard security tbh.
Many thanks gents, much appreciated.
Looks like I'll need to spend a bag on the kit I need, or give Mrs Ghost the absolute fucker of a Christmas wish list.

[Vexed]

Have a server with approx. 15Tb of data stored on it, mainly films and music.
Have never really been a fan of cloud storage but realise this is probably the way forward, especially if I want to access my files from almost anywhere.
Bloke in work recommended BackBlaze, and seems to be decently priced.
Any of you cunts use a cloud storage solution? If so, what would you recommend?

 

Plenty of "off-line" solutions. I've got 3 synchronised 40Tb NAS I use for storage, one in the UK and 2 elsewhere, all inter-linked via VPN.

Storage is as cheap as chips at the moment and if you've got a bunch of unused disks lying around you can coral them into one big virtual drive as a (USB) storage back-up.

2 of my servers cost a bag of sand each once fully configured, which I did over a few months to spread the cost out. I can access (stream) that data from anywhere that has a decent internet connection, which is most places, these days.

The benefit is that, being physically in-house, there is much less chance of somebody assessing your files and putting you somewhere on their political spectrum/selling that assessment to others. No chance of any fee increases down the line, either.

 

 

Textbook oldschool paedo setup that. Who the fuck needs that amount of stuff stored in 2025? Massive red flag. 

[wils]

15TB of storage won’t be cheap.

$99 per year unlimited mate.

Unlimited?

[Mike Oxsaw]

I suppose you have already looked at a NAS for your storage means?

 

I have mate.
Have been looking at a 4 bay U Green NAS.
Problem I have is my backups are stored across 6 discs of about 3Tb each (they were lying around spare), so I'd also have to buy at least 2 new 8-10 Tb drives. A monkey for the NAS, plus another for the two drives I'd need. The cloud service I've been recommended is $99 per year, unlimited storage.
Plus as we know, mechanical disc aren't infallible.

 

 

Sounds like how my set-up evolved. Whilst working/travelling I acquired about 10 4Tb external USB drives over the years (some have since failed). I bought a 4-Bay NAS and a single 4TB HDD ever month after that and began copying everything over.

Quickly ran out of space in the NAS so started swapping out to 6/8/10 Tb drives but it got to be quite a pain going through that every month or so, so I bought a 2nd NAS, mirrored the 1st, making disk upgrades easier. They stay in sync with rsync that runs every night.

The old USB external drives I then hung off a Raspberry Pi (3) and merged using Logical Volume Management, which then became a single drive 24Tb 3rd media server. They're augmented with a 4 Bay USB enclosure within which reside the hard drives I recovered from my old PC when I upgraded to a SFF model. The benefit of this is nothing sits on that SFF PC, so if it dies I still have my data.

I think the cost of NAS and hard drives has dropped considerably since I built my config, so you may well be able to put something similar together for about 500 sovs.

[Far Cough UKunt]

Yeah agree when buying discs for a NAS don't get the ordinary PC ones get Ironwolfs or similar.

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

 

Presumably the NAS can do RAID but then you have to buy twice as many disks if you are super conservative. 

Oh, and I am getting the word...

 

 

 

TBH mate, RAID 1 will do me if I go down the 'on-site' route.
Would probably opt for a couple of WD Red NAS drives.

And don't you fucking start fella

[zebthecat]

I suppose you have already looked at a NAS for your storage means?

 

I have mate.
Have been looking at a 4 bay U Green NAS.
Problem I have is my backups are stored across 6 discs of about 3Tb each (they were lying around spare), so I'd also have to buy at least 2 new 8-10 Tb drives. A monkey for the NAS, plus another for the two drives I'd need. The cloud service I've been recommended is $99 per year, unlimited storage.
Plus as we know, mechanical disc aren't infallible.

 

 

Presumably the NAS can do RAID but then you have to buy twice as many disks if you are super conservative. RAID 5 appears to be the sweet spot. The mean time between failure for spinning metal disks is pretty damn good nowadays and they won't be getting stressed storing media.

Oh, and I am getting the word...

[Far Cough UKunt]

I have three NAS with music and movies mostly, one is always online, the other two are off line except when they are being synced. I don't trust other people with my data, there was a big music company that lost loads of musicians original recordings to a fire, Capitol I think? 

It wasn't Capitol it was Universal.