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darren.b · 16-12-2015, 03:19

I stopped using "the cloud" to store my stuff way back in 2006 when Streamload/MediaMax/Nirvanix/TheLinkUp kept changing names, prices, capacities, rules and eventually their existence. As Streamload, I could upload and download stuff in 25MB chunks. Without warning they changed it to 10MB, meaning I had to pay to access my own stuff. So I did, and closed my account. Dirty behaviour? Oh yes. They continued it for years before eventually going bust.

NONE have been trustworthy. Just look at Yahoo pulling services entirely or unless you pay, Google, now Microsoft. A company known for its dirty practices. The biggest names in the business. Buy an external HDD or 2 and KEEP BACKUPS. All the stuff I care about is backed up to an external HDD, always encrypted, so I always have two copies, worthless to a thief.

Nor do I have the risk of it being leaked or hacked into, as is becoming ever more common.

I will never trust the cloud. Ever.

16-12-2015, 03:19	#9
darren.b cf.addict Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 183	Re: Microsoft reduces Onedrive storage for all existing and new customers I stopped using "the cloud" to store my stuff way back in 2006 when Streamload/MediaMax/Nirvanix/TheLinkUp kept changing names, prices, capacities, rules and eventually their existence. As Streamload, I could upload and download stuff in 25MB chunks. Without warning they changed it to 10MB, meaning I had to pay to access my own stuff. So I did, and closed my account. Dirty behaviour? Oh yes. They continued it for years before eventually going bust. NONE have been trustworthy. Just look at Yahoo pulling services entirely or unless you pay, Google, now Microsoft. A company known for its dirty practices. The biggest names in the business. Buy an external HDD or 2 and KEEP BACKUPS. All the stuff I care about is backed up to an external HDD, always encrypted, so I always have two copies, worthless to a thief. Nor do I have the risk of it being leaked or hacked into, as is becoming ever more common. I will never trust the cloud. Ever.