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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Yep, the old thinking that "RAID = backup" has caught a lot of people out.
Cloud is curious. I think I've grown more paranoid as I've gotten older, I'm not sure that I'd use Cloud storage for backup purposes even if it was an option (if my backups go wrong I have only myself to blame, but I have no control over the Cloud). But as it is, with my massive 0.1Mbps upload speed, for me the Cloud is just an interesting thing that happens to other people.