For Those That This Applies To

yeah- I can see the free for now services moving to small monthly fees. people will just say - yeah - I will just pay a few bucks.
pull quote: If 10 percent of Gmail users sign up for the new $1.99-a-month Google One subscription, that would generate almost $2.4 billion a year in annual recurring sales for the company.

Thats amazing- but I personally have pics and files etc backed up on duplicated hard drives- but were talking terabytes.

 

Oh - I went to check terabyte pricing - and this happened LOL!

 

From Bloomberg; "On April Fools' Day 2004, Google made a splash when it introduced Gmail, a free online email service."

It was April Fool's Day, indeed.

 

$20/yrs. for 100GB cloud storage is cheap insurance.

Used to use Carbonite but even that was $70/yr.

 

So long as they don't cancel the unlimited plans I'll stay happy.

Can't beat unlimited data being backed up for $15 a month. I have 90tb up right now and not one complaint from them. (Technically you need 5 users... So it'd be $75 a month)

 

90tb??? You know you dont have to SAVE all those red tube videos, they will be there tomorrow.

 

Lol... this made me laugh

 

Simple solution is to use encryption. 90% of my stuff is encrypted on Google drive, using open source third party software so not even Google knows what's on the drive.

Unless a vulnerability is discovered in 2048 bit encryption... All my data is safe from prying eyes, until quantum computing comes out. I'm pretty confident Google, or anyone else can't see whatever I decide they shouldn't see....data wise, their information prying eyes probably knows everything about me already.

All my important stuff is backed up locally on a 100tb server, just incase something happens to Google. And a third copy on blackblaze, just incase. I don't trust everything in one place.

 

You never know

Most of my collection is Blu-ray backups. I try to make my home as "smart" and convenient ad possible... Which means not having to get up to switch disks, or trusting my 6 year old not to scratch them.

Every Blu-ray I buy gets ripped to an iso, and added to plex. Then I can stream/watch wherever and whenever I want, and not bring my bluray collection everywhere with me.

The best part is telling Google to play something and it'll find it and play it. It's the little things in life that make it worth living..

 

Lol, makes me think of "doomsday preppers".. Save the internet porn just in case!!

I never really understood BUYING movies to keep and replay. Usually I watch something once and I'm done...forever. SOMETIMES I might go back and rewatch something that was really good but that's rare. Come to think of it, we haven't had physical media in my house for years.

This spring someone gave us a parenting DVD...between a TV downstairs and our laptops we didn't have anyway to play the DVD. It's still sitting under the TV table collecting dust.

 

Mainly tv shows for me... I don't really watch many movies. Though if it's a movie i really like,I usually buy it to support the movie. I think I own maybe 40-50 blurays and hundreds of series.

I'd like to say it's for my kid. But he spends more time watching netflixnkids shows than blurays these days. So when my wife asks why we're spending thousands on blurays and hard drives, I blame the kid.

I have so many blurays I don't even know what I have anymore. At this point it's more about having a big collection than it Is about being useful it's grown too big to stop now!

https://www.amazon.com/Aluminum-Storage-Holder-Hanger-Sleeves/dp/B00CDWQK7A I've got 3 of these almost full between blurays, and old dvds I'm waiting for them to re release to bluray.

It's mainly useless.. But I have a 120" projector and really nice surround sound system downstairs, it's almost like going to the theater... Always fun when a buddy comes over.


And your point lends credit to my collection too.. We never touch our blurays. If it's one I didn't backup yet... It's usually "well watch it once it's on plex...". Think of it as having your own netflix with just shows and movies you want to watch, including just released blurays. The convenience of it and having a ton of shows all in one spot, as well as saving where you left off... It's great. I only watch netflix when a new original comes out, everything else is plex these days.