I have all my media content on a Sinology NAS (1815). Currently I have 12 TB, but I’m planning to expand it with the rise of 4K Content.
Even if I have setup a raid system the hardware may fail, so I really want to start using a cloud storage service.
I was thinking Amazon S3 or Glacier but I’m worried mostly on privacy issues.
I’m not really sure if I have the ownership off all the content that I have so I was thinking on using a server located outside US, may be on Europe.
What do you think?
have you heard any problem regarding similar issues?
Trust me Torcator, While the idea seems sound to cozy up to the cloud for uncompressed/slightly compressed 4k it will not be enough for you to stream without major buffering. I have a movie in 4k that uses 117mbps on average sitting in my local Raid 0 array however the spikes up to 200+mbps kill the experience. If you have a 4K TV and it is wired in to your network good luck not maxing out the 1G port ( i hope).
Agree with you 100%, that’s why I’m not thinking on streaming from the cloud.
What I want to use it as a long term backup.
I also understand that with 100 mb upload it will take a while to upload 12 TB, but that’s not a problem for me.
My concern is about the privacy of the data using AWS
Hyper backup on Synology has an option to encrypt the data which ‘should’ provide some level of privacy.
It will take you some MONTHS to upload that lot though
Time is not an issue. My concern is privacy…
Also I can always use this https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
do you happen to know what type of encryption does synology allow me to use?
I use Amazon Cloud Drive as well as Google Drive for encrypted long term storage.
@hthighway said:
I use Amazon Cloud Drive as well as Google Drive for encrypted long term storage.
Do you use AWS servers from US or Europe?
Also are you based on US?
my question is because I notice that the privacy regulations are pretty different in different countries.
As Amazon, in the US, has gone away from Unlimited storage I now only use Google Drive.
I have now looked at a huge number of options for “Cloud” storage and found them all wanting. The Cloud is just not safe. While you can encrypt and thereby prevent anyone knowing what is there or seeing its contents to a degree I would call “safe” there is NOTHING that really protects your data from loss beyond some words in the ether and words do not protect anything.
If you want good safety then backup your data yourself and keep copies at at least two different locations. Personally I do not go that far. My data is backed up locally and a copy is kept in a fire proof cabinet. If anything happens that destroys both my primary and my backup then my problems with many other things are much greater than any that could be caused by the data I’ve lost.
@Elijah_Baley said:
If you want good safety then backup your data yourself and keep copies at at least two different locations. Personally I do not go that far. My data is backed up locally and a copy is kept in a fire proof cabinet. If anything happens that destroys both my primary and my backup then my problems with many other things are much greater than any that could be caused by the data I’ve lost.
I tend to get a safer feeling using a Google cloud product than I do relying on the promised shelf-life of a drive sitting in a cabinet, or the promised fire-rating of a fire-proof cabinet.
