C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ifixcoinops</span></a></span> </p><p>Indeed.</p><p>Back In The Day, I used to sell and install hard drives in computers. The boss had gotten a deal on some slightly sketchy previous-generation disks - ancient Seagate (IIRC) 20MB drives (MFM interface! State of the art at the time was 60MB RLL disks, by Toshiba I think). Those felt spacious in an age of 808[68] computers.</p><p>I didn't get my first hard disk until my second Amiga, an A3000. I paid $1,800 for a 540MB drive. In terms of minimum wage at the time, that was about ten weeks of full-time work, before deductions.</p><p>My point? I'm with you. It boggles my mind that so many people still trust their data to "the cloud", which as you say is just "someone else's computer", even with the constant stories of accounts suddenly closed without recourse, credentials lost, cloud providers deleting files, and on and on. Storage is dirt cheap these days. At least keep a copy of everything - and I mean everything - on storage media that you own and physically possess.</p><p>There's a saying that there are two kinds of computing people: those who have experienced a data-loss incident, and those that will experience a data-loss incident.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldManYellsAtCloud</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/disk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disk</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/UphillBothWays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UphillBothWays</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DataLoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataLoss</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/backups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>backups</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/local" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>local</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/LocalBackups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalBackups</span></a></p>