Thankfully that's not valuable business data. But that's still my precious memories in the past 10 years. Shame on me for not making a backup for those data.
Anyway, I'll start moving now, by building a NAS. I think the HPE microserver might be a good choice.
Never thought IBM (SoftLayer, actually) would prompt me to build a NAS.
QT: https://qoto.org/@skyblond/106848932700155386
Hmmmm, I don't think storing some personal photos and some copies of DVDs will be illegal. DVD copies might be piracy, but at least I bought the physical disk and make a digital copy without sharing it with anyone.
The false-positive... I do have some photos of when I was young, a 12 years old boy wearing swimming pants on the beach. I mean, it shouldn't be child porn I guess? They are just normal pictures. 
>> Hmmmm, I don't think storing some personal photos and some copies of DVDs will be illegal. DVD copies might be piracy, but at least I bought the physical disk and make a digital copy without sharing it with anyone.
<< Unauthorized copies of copyrighted material can be considered illegal depending on the country in which is hosting your storage.
>> The false-positive... I do have some photos of when I was young, a 12 years old boy wearing swimming pants on the beach. I mean, it shouldn't be child porn I guess? They are just normal pictures.
<< It would be considered pornographic depending on the standards of which the country in which the server farm is located. Assuming it's within your own country- you would know it's definitions. Typically, a simple picture of a young child in swimming attire isn't grounds for child pornography.
The contents are stored in us-east.
Anyway, they said:
> No further information will be disclosed regarding this matter.
I'm not sure why. If I'm violating their terms of use, they can point out which one I'm broken.
Maybe next time I'll encrypt them before uploading them to some cloud service. I thought I could trust the cloud service platforms.
@skyblond
>The contents are stored in us-east.
Ok, so all contents are according to US Copyright law. So technically it should have been ok so long as it wasn't seem that you were distributing the material. Even then, in some cases it might be argued that it was an abuse of their services.
>> No further information will be disclosed regarding this matter.
Well that's just rude...
>I'm not sure why. If I'm violating their terms of use, they can point out which one I'm broken.
Ideally, they should.
>Maybe next time I'll encrypt them before uploading them to some cloud service. I thought I could trust the cloud service platforms.
The only provider you can really trust is yourself.
Yeap, so I'm considering hosting my own NAS.
I don't like hosting servers in my (parent's) house since the house itself is already 25 years old (I'm 21 years old), and it's really moist during the summer. Also, the network in China is *uncommentable due to laws and regulations*😜 But it's not a big issue, I have already built a transparent proxy using raspberry pi (for my switch, the Nintendo one).
Maybe it's time to make the changes.
@skyblond
I've been trying to think of possible solutions- but it might help to know a few things like how much space you need, its primary use and how you intend to access it(eg ssh, rdp, etc).
Sorry for the late reply.
I think the HPE microserver will meet my needs. I don't need a powerful server, maybe a proxmox with ZFS is good enough for my first setup.
@skyblond
Is there any reason to suspect illegal content amongst your personal files? Or maybe false-positives?