anyone uses Amazon S3?

[Antony]

Anyone use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon's cloud (online) storage service?

If so, please share your opinion and experience.

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[DJGM]

TBH ... although I've tried a few of these so-called "cloud" services for online file backups, I don't really fully
trust them. If (for example) I'm away from home, and I need to get access to specific important files, and
they're stored on "the cloud", I'm screwed if the server is down for maintenance, or in some extreme
circumstances, if it's been hacked, or they've had some sort of hardware failure.

I'd rather keep all my files on my own PC or server, and if I need to take any important files with me to use
on another computer, I'll copy them to one of my pen drives. The only exception to this is if I'm going to
be using a public computer where USB portable storage devices are not allowed for security reasons.
In that case, I'll put the files on my OperaUnite server instead. Or both, if necessary.

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[Don_HH2K]

I agree with DJGM - I carry around a couple of flash drives on my keychain, and as far as data transit goes that's always been more than enough.

For backups, I use a 250GB drive on my Xbox running XBMC, and a 60GB encrypted NAS running FreeNAS. I'd much rather have network-local storage than keep it online, for both privacy and throughput reasons.

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[iJohnE]

I have 20GB of Amazon cloud storage that I store my Amazon music purchases in, their nice to have there for when I want to play them from a browser or download them for a friend. But I do keep a local backup.

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