Contrast Google's 0.08% fail rate here vs. the real world 3% hard drive fail rate - by that measure Google's cloud is 37x more reliable than your local storage.

Contrast Google's 0.08% fail rate here vs. the real world 3% hard drive fail rate - by that measure Google's cloud is 37x more reliable than your local storage. Feels like cloud-bashing is becoming a regular sport - for techies we know that redundant back-ups are important, for average consumer the cloud drastically INCREASES reliability and the chance that items you store are going to be available when you need them. ref for 5 year hd fail rate http://lwn.net/Articles/237924/ http://lwn.net/Articles/237924/