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Daily Archives: January 18, 2006
Information Storage
Despite a growing confidence in the online medium, I’m still amazed by the number of people who think it’s safer to keep something in the real world — whether family photos, tax documents, or music CDs — than to preserve it online. My father, for example, always kept cash in his house, because he trusted those green pieces of paper more than his credit card or bank account.
Despite a growing confidence in the online medium, I’m still amazed by the number of people who think it’s safer to keep something in the real world — whether family photos, tax documents, or music CDs — than to preserve it online. My father, for example, always kept cash in his house, because he trusted those green pieces of paper more than his credit card or bank account. In reality, however, the safest place to store your family’s important documents — whether photos, papers, music, or financial statements — is through a secure online data storage solution. Even keeping it on your hard drive or burning it to a CD raises physical risks like damage or loss from theft, fire, hackers, or viruses. Of equal concern, an article in PC World last week pointed out that a burned CD only has a "relatively short lifetime of between two to five years" before it begins to degrade. Keeping your photos on a secure server such as AOL, XDrive or Google, however, ensures that they will last forever. A lot of people have talked about the power of broadband to create an "always-on" world, with instant access to information. I think of equal importance is the ability of broadband to create an "always-there" world where all of your e-mails, photos, songs, and documents are available from any computer at any time. The real challenge will be convincing consumers to shift their thinking from the misperception of physical "solidity" to the new reality of very permanent, but less solid, online storage.