Quote Originally Posted by HDNitehawk View Post
jrw, you have a point with security. Today GoDaddy was down for several hours, some claimed they were hacked some said otherwise. It was kind of ironic because I watched their video yesterday about how safe and secure their site was. I wouldn't use GoDaddy for storage because the price is to high but still, its kind of a scary thought that if you backed up all you're files on a site that gets hacked someone could go through every file you had ever saved.
I agree with both you and JR, But I normally weigh the risks over the benefits----In my case, I don't backup financial data, not even my taxes. So most of what I have wouldn't be really usefull to a hacker. I also look at it this way: If they can hack GoDaddy, they can certainly hack my own personal machine so I don't see any greater risk with useing the online storage. Frankly, I am more concerned with someone tapping my wireless network, even though it is password protected, I don't really consider it "secure".

My biggest reason for going with online storage is convenience and cost. I can get 3 years of online storage for the cost of one nas raid device. And with the online storage, I am confident that a local lightning storm or house fire won't meltdown my data.

About 3 years ago we had a large power surge at work----it melted the power strips to the floor, killed 24 of my classroom computers, a copier, and set a fax machine on fire. Even our UPS protected network switch was killed. Needless to say, I don't have a great deal of faith in surge protectors, UPS's or in commercial or residential fuse/breaker protection. If it's wired, it can be killed with lightning or power surges.

I do like the idea of simply storing a device in another location, but then I have to remember to re-acquire that device and periodically run my back-ups. I no longer have the discipline or memory to reliably carry out such operations. It's an age thing.


So, for me, online storage only costs per month what I spend on one fast food lunch and is much easier and has less overall risk than most of the other options.