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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by JadeNB on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:18PM (#28621951)
> Welp - affordability. It's expensive and arguably less reliable to get an external hard drive.

I think multiply redundant back-ups get expensive, but one external hard drive with scads of space is cheap (at least from the perspective of someone who grew up when you measured space in MB). It won't provide you the security against data failure, but it will provide some recourse for when the cloud provider yanks your data.

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by nickthegreek on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:22PM (#28622004)
Won’t protect you from fire or theft either.
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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by JadeNB on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:33PM (#28622136)
Well, it will if it's in a different location. But that's just what I mean—you don't need one solution that protects against everything; different solutions can protect against different threats, and all you really need is one to make it through.
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