Why do we need hard drives if we can just store everything on the cloud?
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Hard drives are local, independent of an internet connection, and a relatively robust means of data storage.
The cloud, after all, is just someone else’s hard drive. It’s just a data center somewhere in the world with a lot of those hard drives that requires an internet connection to access, download, and upload your data. Sure it has security, backup power, and maintenance to ensure your data remains safe- but without that connection you’re cut off from it.
Because of this, local data storage with hard drives (or more likely SSDs as the price drops) will continue to be prevalent for local data storage by the average consumer.
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