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pat362 (0)
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I have my computers hard drive and I also have 3 extra external drives. 1 x 500G, 1 x 1Tb and 1 x 2TB. I do not use any Cloud based system and I never will. Call me paranoid but I don't trust any company not to peak/steal my personal info.
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03-01-17 02:57pm
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Jay G (Disabled)
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REPLY TO #1 - pat362 :
Totally agree about the cloud. Weren't celebrity photos already hacked from such sources? They can't hack it if it's not attached to the internet.
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03-01-17 11:13pm
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qvtta (0)
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My collection is about 1,5TB and it's sitting on a 2TB drive. Content consists of 900GB un-organized porn and 800GB organized. I'm thinking of upgrading to an 4TB drive because I'm running really tight here. My second biggest drive is an 1TB drive and it mainly has installs, software and I been having to tranfer alot of other stuff there aswell due to porn needing more space. I don't have porn on the 1TB drive.
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03-02-17 08:45am
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skippy (0)
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If the question was primarily "do you use the cloud?" I don't. Cloud storage doesn't scale well for...um....our purposes, especially with the latest high res video/VR files getting up there into the 15-25 GB range.
If you are asking about our computer set-ups, well.... I just upgraded with a bunch of 6TB drives and now have a regular desktop, a dedicated VR machine and a server for backups. Desktop has 4 data-only drives (20 TB total, about half for the collection). VR machine has 2 data drives (12 TB), also about half for the collection, mostly VR added since November! The server has 24 TB, incrementally backs up nightly. I have a couple of 6TB drives to install in that one soon. VR files are 5-15 GB each. I also recently went back to many of my regular sites and started pulling images in the highest resolution available and video in 1080 or 4k. As a result, my collection has more than doubled in size in less than 6 months. (And it was pretty big before....)
Oh, and most of my data drives are installed in Istar tray-less removable cages (Newegg) so they can be removed or swapped out through the front of my computers without opening the case. These things are, cheap, awesome, make use of otherwise useless 5 1/4 inch slots, and make any drive "portable". they look pretty cool too!
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03-02-17 03:59pm
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pat362 (0)
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REPLY TO #2 - Jay G :
Can't confirm if the celebrity photos were taken from a cloud based system but for me it's not a question of security so much as a legal one. Basically all content saved on a cloud based system is digital in nature. If the company offering you the service decides to use your data then aren't they partially the owners since you are saving it on their server. Isn't possession 9/10th of the law.
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03-02-17 05:54pm
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Jay G (Disabled)
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REPLY TO #5 - pat362 :
Interesting thoughts. Probably depends on that long online agreement we all click on without reading. In law there is, however, a long history of someone holding your property in storage (think safe deposit box, hotel safe, rented storage unit).
Possession is only 9/10 of the law because fighting a legal battle for you possessions is too costly to be worth the trouble. You would win in most cases, but your legal fees don't make it worth the trouble unless you are an attorney.
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03-03-17 03:02am
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pat362 (0)
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REPLY TO #6 - Jay G :
Although for the courts there may not be a legal difference between someone stealing the content of your safety deposit box and someone stealing your cloud data. I think the first one is easier to prove because you can see that something is missing. The same can't be said for cloud based data. I mean our surfing data is already stolen and we aren't even using a cloud based system. What's to stop any company that accepts to store your data for free or for a minimal fee not to look through the data and see if there is anything they can use.
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03-03-17 05:50pm
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skippy (0)
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REPLY TO #5 - pat362 :
Cloud service providers have no rights to any of the data you store. They have a fiduciary responsibility to keep it safe just like your bank, credit card companies and merchants have a fiduciary responsibility to keep your money and credit card information safe. Huge lawsuits have resulted from breach of that fiduciary responsibility when people hack into their systems or employees walk away with data. That said, many consumer-level cloud operations limit their liability for LOSS of data. So although they are liable for ensuring nobody else gets your data, they try not to be liable if they accidentally lose it. Only commercial B to B cloud operations are legally obligated to both secure and protect the data (to a very high degree thanks to SOX compliance laws). So if, as a consumer, you use cloud based storage and your stuff gets lost, tough. Thanks but no thanks.
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03-03-17 08:56pm
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pat362 (0)
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REPLY TO #8 - skippy :
Don't get me wrong. I wasn't implying that cloud based companies have any rights to your data so much as they may simply access it for their own purposes and there is then very little you can do. Yes, if you find that they stole your data you can sue them but unless you are filthy rich, a huge corporation or some hot shot lawyer will take your case pro-bono than chances are you are screwed. In fact suing them will probably not mean that you aren't screwed anyway.
The best example was all those celebrities who had their personal data stolen and then posted to the net. Jennifer Lawrence can sue her cloud provider but it won't stop the millions of people who now have her naked pics and videos from looking at them or uploading them to the net over and over again.
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03-04-17 10:54am
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Jay G (Disabled)
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REPLY TO #7 - pat362 :
True, the computer has changed everything, especially through its ability to copy, communicate, and sort more information than any human could have only a few decades ago.
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03-06-17 02:08pm
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Homegirl (Disabled)
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I have two external hard drives, 8GB in total.
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05-23-20 01:31pm
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