The cloud is just someone elses computer, you could pay 19.99 a year for 100 gbs of storage on some shady corporations server somewhere for them to inevitably jack up the price. Or you could not be an idiot and buy a 128 gb flash drive for 14.99 one time and have that storage forever.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

buy the 32g thumbs for about $5. load with mp3s-4s and give as gifts. for backups

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Flashdrives are not forever storage. Flashdrives corrupt literally all the time. And old flashdrives that sit around also corrupt while not in use. If you care about your data, store that data in multiple places. Follow the data hygiene rules. 3 2 1: 3 copies of the data, on 2 different storage mediums, with 1 copy off-site.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

forever is a long time. distributed copies might last beyond my time. eh

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Got it so buy a second drive, and pay $15/mo to the cloud storage company.

[–] lapping6596@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

If you're willing to deal with managing it, 125gb on s3 seems to cost about $3 per month.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You think you can do better for 15 dollars go ahead.

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world -2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

15? I pay like 80 euro for 1 year m365 family. That's 5 Terrabyte for 80/12=6,66 euro/month.

That's less then a cent per GB. Much less. Combine that with Amazon photos (Unlimited photo storage, included with prime) and i'm set.

There is no cheaper storage plan.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

you completely missed the point

[–] fiddlesticks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

TBF that's forever until your house burns down with it inside

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago

or the drive wasn't plugged in for a long time, causing the flash storage to degrade