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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I have about 5 TB of bizarre stuff collected since the 70's. Old games, books, OS, most of which I will never access. But I keep it as it fits in a couple of 4x8 hard drives with room to spare. Sure I could put it on a cloud server, but why?
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One reason would be so it's securely backed up. Hard disks die. I once had the unfortunate situation where TWO drives in a RAID5 array simultaneously got fried by a thunderstorm and I lost my data even though I thought I was safe with RAID5.
I too have multiple terabytes of data on external hard drives, but even though I have a "primary" and a "backup" of each drive, if Cloud storage ever falls to the level when I could afford to store it in the Cloud, I'd be happy to do so for security.