Why do we need hard drives if we can just store everything on the cloud?
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“The cloud” isn’t really a thing, it’s just marketer-speak for “someone else’s computers”.
So “Google cloud storage” is a fancy way of saying “storage on Google’s computers”. And if you store any substantial amount of data on Google’s computers, they’re gonna want money for it. And then, since it’s on someone else’s computer, if you want to access it, you’re gonna have to go through the internet.
Meaning that, it’s usually easier to store it on your own computer, than it is to borrow someone else’s.
Because what would you do if the server goes down from overload, or your own internet goes down.
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