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If you use any cloud storage, including others like dropbox or icloud, you must always assume that. Whether you're a business or an individual.
by nolok 3y ago
If you use any cloud storage, including others like dropbox or icloud, you must always assume that. Whether you're a business or an individual.
- naikrovek 3y agoWhy? It’s not an unsolvable inherent problem. You pay for cloud storage so you don’t have to think about these things. If you’re saying that one should pay for cloud storage and still worry about these things, then you’re trading money for a service which provides nothing, or at least you’re paying for a service which provides no real utility. You’re trading money for nothing. If anyone thinks that’s a normal transaction then I don’t know how to respond to that.
- nolok 3y agoWhat I'm saying is that you think you paid for something different than what you actually pay for if you look in the actual contract. Check by yourself : whatever your provider is, without looking, can you say what guarantee they give you that your file won't be deleted randomly ? Do you think it's stronger than "best effort but no % written" ? Then go check what it actually says. I'm not saying I think it's a good state of affairs, I'm european and part of the crowd that cheered when ISP got smacked for abusing "unlimited" in their ads while the contract said different. But parent's comment I'm answering too can at best be seen as a warning that specifically google storage can make your files disapear in some rare cases, if that matters to you enough then you need to know the same is true for all the big others.
- nazgul17 3y agoNo, you would assign a probability to the event. And that probability would be higher for a Google product.
- adr1an 3y agoThat might be selection bias, the news posted here are only newsworthy because it's Google. Anyhow, I trust smaller shops a bit more than big corps (no matter the product or service being purchased), but it's subjective. In regards to tech, I trust myself first. In the same way that a Chef might not prefer going to any common restaurant, sure.
- nolok 3y agoI would disagree with you, my personnal anecdotal data showing google to be more reliable at it than others. In the lack of hard properly collected data, this give all of them the same probability. I'm sure someone out there thought "let's use microsoft skydrive because google is unreliable".