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Old 02-15-2016, 08:38 AM   #142
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
Buggy software deletes data. That could never happen with local storage. No wait, it could.

That's not a reason to not use the cloud. It's a reason not to have only one copy of important files.

Also, almost no-one uses "a cloud ... as [their] only storage" because the most popular cloud storage solutions are sync-based so there's two copies one local, one in the cloud.
He did say that. Twice, in fact, after his edit.

But as smart phone and tablet makers remove sd slots, and try to force people to use their cloud services to REPLACE their non-existent local storage, we're seeing more and more people keeping their one and only copies of stuff in the cloud.
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