1970-01-01 7 hours ago

You could just put it on a local disk? 512GB sdcard is like $15 at Walmart.

dghlsakjg 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Check the price of flash memory again. That $15 card is almost certainly a scam.

Yeah their memory of how much memory costs is outdated. I was just at a walmart this weekend and a 128 card was 30 bucks.

▲

matsemann 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

At least if bought from Amazon. It will happily accept writing 512 GB to it, but it's not stored anywhere.

	▲	irishcoffee 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yep that burned me once. Lesson learned.

▲

ThePowerOfFuet 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tell me you have no interest in your own data without telling me you have no interest in your own data.

▲

1970-01-01 6 hours ago | parent [-]

How is a local copy not the best way to store data?

▲

Twirrim 4 hours ago | parent [-]

A local copy is inherently fragile. It's easily destroyed by accident, flood, fire etc. This is especially true when using a single storage device like an SD Card, vs the way that these storage services operate, leveraging things like erasure encoding.

Local backups are important, they're cheap, and often fast. They just shouldn't be the only kind of backup you do for data that is important to you.

▲

asdff 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Make two local backups and store the other one at work or a friends house.

	▲	beoberha 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hope you never want to take diff backups

▲

browningstreet 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wanted a forever backup. I'm going to trust Apple and a hard drive.

▲

lostlogin 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah yes, the famously reliable Time Machine.

	▲	tibbydudeza 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		TM was a hack - iCloud is pretty good I reckon - for the millions of devices they have in the market there has been the only odd complaint from somebody on twitter making headlines with a Technorati type of following about user accounts mysterious being deleted or blocked (poor customer support) or some weird syncing issues when moving to a new device and the old device is still in use.