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Re:Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:51AM (#41517705)
SLA numbers don't say anything about your particular piece of data, just all customer data on aggregate.

> The idea that two would terminate it simultaneously is vanishingly small.

Au contraire, if you become sanctioned or illegal, both would necessarily have to terminate simultaneously, if the cloud providers want to comply with local laws.

You're not using a Chinese or Iranian cloud, are you?

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Re:Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives by crazygringo on Thursday September 12, 2024 @09:47AM (#41520932)
The scenario here is archiving data like music recordings.

If you have legal troubles that's a different conversation. And the feds can certainly confiscate your physical media anyways.

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