Fun things to do on a 1 Gbps connection

What @buggybuggy is trying to say makes sense. If not now it is relevant for years to come. I backed up all my digital photos from 2005 and scanned photos from the 90s in DVDs that I thought were cheap. I bought a stack of Sony DVDs and thought it is a good option for lifelong storage - a single 4.7 GB DVD costed Rs. 20. Much cheaper than HDDs or SSDs before 2015. Although they are affordable now, I don't know if I can still plug in my drive after 10 years and use it with no issues. Heck you would have to find a USB-C to USB-A connector for that. Now retrieving all the stuff from those DVDs is not an easy thing to do as I don't find a disk reader. I might do it any sooner as I fear those disks might be corrupted. Cold storage is a good option for stuff like photos and other unimportant files as the pricing might come down in a long run. Media compression is evolving and with faster connections we can have quick access to it in the future.

Optical disks are pretty good, can last decades or even a century if kept properly
Other option is tapes but it's pretty sensitive to environmental variables

why I didn't found this option few months ago, had to get rid of a lot of stuff I was hoarding. Deep archive will be perfect I have a lot of large video and other files that I don't actively use but just want it there to be.

Gsuite business is still the best deal. It will cost $10-12 per month and Google is not yet implementing 1TB limit. Or just create shared drive and enjoy unlimited storage.

Yeah, i also have around 10 TB in gsuite
I use a server to remotely download files to drive using rclone

Rehan Kumar said:

Definitely makes sense if you are going for storage for decades, guess not old enough and too depressed to think so far ahead nor i have any pictures/videos I think as important

But personal disk will still be pretty relevant in future for decent amount of tasks where latency is important.
No matter how advanced the technology is, speed of light will be a limiting factor

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Not being old enough or depressed enough isn't an argument to counter cold storage and is irrelevant.

By the time you feel you are "old and depressed" enough, the information will be gone forever.

Optical disks and tapes are limited by their physical interfaces. As @sriivatsava mentioned, the physical connections will be lost forever and it will be hard to find replacements over time. So storing it on physical devices does not make sense.

Personal disks will become like cache/RAM storage in future in my opinion, just holding enough information locally to counter the light speed issues when interfacing with the network.

So rather than RAM being as it is now which is caching local data in memory, I can imagine a RAM/cache for network storage.

i am sort of confused. you guys really believe that Amazon would be operational 60-70 years from now?

@Sushubh You think the external TB hard drive will be operational 60-70 years from now?

I'd bet my money on Amazon being around rather than the hard drive.

Hope that answers the question.

@Sushubh Definitely not but they are at least accountable for our data. If there comes a situation where they'll have to shut their business, we can get our archive or there will be an alternate services which will take over. On the other hand, maintaining our physical media disks/devices will be near impossible.

@buggybuggy What is the datacap on 1gig plan? Wonder if it is actually FUP free or is still limited to 3.3TB.

It's still 3.3 TB

3.3, and it's weird, it's very easy to consume 100 Gb a day at these speeds. Even a single Speedtest consumes about 2 Gigs.

Lol, you cant have too much fun this then.

well they are giving you enough data to let you consume 110GB per day so there's that.

Horses for courses. At that price and speed, putting a data cap is unwarranted.

I wouldn't mind 1gig connection to play with and stress test my hardware. But for longer term i would rather take multiple connections each with the 3.3 TB addon.