Ditched a $200/mo cloud storage plan for a $80 hard drive and honestly I'm mad it took me this long

I was paying Google One and Dropbox both for years, about $200 a month combined. Kept telling myself I needed the backup safety net. Last month I just bought a 4TB external SSD for $80 and copied everything over. It sits on my desk. That's it. I don't get why everyone acts like the cloud is the only way now. Has anyone else just gone back to local storage and felt dumb for not doing it sooner?

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faith_shah882d ago

Yeah but your hard drive can die or get lost way easier than the cloud.

cooper.drew2d ago

Hard drive can die" is right, lost two of them myself. One just clicked once and never turned on again, all my photos from college gone. Cloud is way more reliable even if it creeps me out a bit.