Ask HN: How many of you avoid cloud storage?

5 points·deafpolygon··5 comments

I'm curious. I'm considering a move away from cloud - especially with the political climates in the US now.

If you've never made the leap to cloud, why?

If you've moved to cloud, but moved back off cloud - what was your rationale?

Any other thoughts on cloud storage? (doesn't matter what service it is - sync'ing your data on someone else's machine).

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I don't share my data with anyone so I don't need cloud storage. SSDs are so cheap at this point that I just buy a new SSD every few years and install a fresh copy of Windows there. Old drive gets unplugged and "archived" on the shelf.

If I need to access the "archive" I use a SATA to USB cable and plug the drive in.

I avoid large capacity drives (my biggest one is about 200GB) and use spacesniffer so I'm forced to keep the data I store lean.

I've never used cloud storage in any real way, primarily because it doesn't solve any problems I need solving. My own servers meet all my "cloudlike" needs. I would be hesitant (but not dead set against) using such storage because of security, privacy, and availability concerns.

If you've never made the leap to cloud, why?

No need for personal data.

I have all the storage I need locally --- for both active use and archive and it is all fully under my control.

My experience in the corporate world of endless compliance audits reinforced all the risks of leaking my data over 3rd party vendors. Storage is very affordable. I just keep many encrypted copies of my junk locally and one copy goes in the truck.

Im using since a few years my own cloud based on Nextcloud,

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