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The article brings up an interesting point on the side. What do users need all that space for these days? Movies? - itunes/netflix/amazon, music? - itunes, gam
by brador 15y ago
The article brings up an interesting point on the side. What do users need all that space for these days? Movies? - itunes/netflix/amazon, music? - itunes, games - steam, pics - cloud/flickr/facebook.
The demand for large personal data storage (for non-pirates of course) is decreasing I say.
- krschultz 15y agoIn my case it's pictures. Yes, some of my pictures are on Facebook and Flickr. All of them are backed up in the cloud. And I still have 3-4 different computers synced with all of them. You can download/stream music or movies, but I can never go back in time and take family pictures again. I might be overly sensitive to it because my grandparents lost all of their pictures in a storage unit fire, but I think it is a fair point. My pictures fill up approximately 40-60 GB. I have about 200 GB of other files, of which maybe 1GB is critical. If I lost the rest I wouldn't really care, so I only backup the pictures in the cloud.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago> pics - cloud/flickr/facebook. "cloud"? Isn't that what Dropbox is? And flickr/facebook are fine, until Facebook decides your name isn't your name, or Flickr decides to change its terms of service.
- teach 15y agoI have quite a few home movies of family members that take up quite a bit of space. And my personal music collection is in the 100s of gigabytes (all legally purchased and ripped from CD).