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If the "cloud" server is in the US, there is the potential for IRS to seize the equipment, wipe the drives and sell the kit to recover unpaid debts. This has happened, no claim for the value of the data is entertained as all it is a series of 0s and 1s which cannot be copyrighted.
I would only trust a cloud service as a delivery mechanism not as a disaster recovery storage device.
Agreed. Which is why I rely on RAID 5EE and good old fashioned LTO tapes!
If the "cloud" server is in the US, there is the potential for IRS to seize the equipment, wipe the drives and sell the kit to recover unpaid debts. This has happened, no claim for the value of the data is entertained as all it is a series of 0s and 1s which cannot be copyrighted.
I would only trust a cloud service as a delivery mechanism not as a disaster recovery storage device.
Repeating this again because I think it is succinctly put and hits the nail squarely on the head. Perhaps it's drifting off-topic a little bit but it is still a sound view IMHO. Thanks Derek.
I also have the view that disc drives have two states:
about to die
or
dead
Data does not exist unless it exists in two or more places
Agreed again!
Modern hard drives are very reliable, but they also hold huge amounts of data.
This reliability has made us all very complacent, as few people think about data loss until it actually happens to them.
I have installed solid state hard drives (SSD's) in my laptop and two desktop machines, and I am very happy with their performance. However, I have a horrible feeling that they are even more likely to expire unexpectedly, so I make a point of creating drive images (for painless recovery to a replacement drive) and performing regular backups.
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