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And a lot more energy efficient

• lostsock 10y ago
  And for a lot of what is stored on them, like music, photos and movies that speed is totally unnecessary. It's the same reason I still have both an SSD and HDD in my computer. I use the fast expensive storage for things that effect performance and the slower but much cheaper storage for my "bulk media" needs.
  • falcolas 10y ago
    Photos, imo, are a great example of where cloud storage falls apart. High quality photos take a lot of disk space and take forever to up- and download in their native formats. Once you overrun your local disk cache, you're SOL until those gigs of photos are moved. Not to mention the browsing problem; thumbing through thousands of thumbnails and hundreds of full sized photos in a session is impossible with cloud storage. There's a reason photographers buy multi-terabyte SANs and spend days backing those up online after a single shoot.
    • shostack 10y ago
      With the current gen of phones I'd say high res videos are the more painful use case. 4k video files are gigantic.