I really liked this idea, until I realized that the net effect would be a post here: "their inferior hardware lost my data and then they tried to extort 5000EUR

I really liked this idea, until I realized that the net effect would be a post here: "their inferior hardware lost my data and then they tried to extort 5000EUR to get it back." While on paper it seems crazy that offering a customer an extra option could never be a negative, in practice it can.