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Your whole rant completely misses the point. It's not about upgrading, I mentioned repairs. It's not the price of the raw storage that is the problem. It's the

by chx 3y ago

Your whole rant completely misses the point. It's not about upgrading, I mentioned repairs. It's not the price of the raw storage that is the problem. It's the data you stored. You need to be able to keep it in your possession or it's not your data. Of course, cloud providers have so successfully trained US customers some 23% of them think nothing of not owning their data any more. That's the lunacy I am talking of.

dangus 3y ago
If we are talking about data ownership, that is not relevant here. Whether the drive is removable or not has no bearing on whether you implement a 3-2-1 backup. Data stored in one location inside a portable device is always at risk. Drop the laptop in the bathtub or lose it in the airport and the result is the same soldered or not. Nothing about an Apple system stops you from backing up to an external drive (or even booting from one) and the external I/O is fast enough for high-performance SSDs. Let's go down the data ownership road, though: The consumer didn’t need to be brainwashed into cloud storage. Dropbox didn’t need a Super Bowl ad to become a household name. The services solve a real problem, one that existed before drives were soldered. In mayn cases you can't solve the problem for the same amount of money on your own (just put a cheap Synology system and two hard drives in your Amazon cart along with replacement disks every 3-6 years and tell me how much that costs compared to the $8.25/month you pay for Google One. I'm not even sure you can make it breakeven, ever). Hell, I’ve never given Dropbox a dime and they have stored and synced all my important documents for almost a decade now. Not a single item has ever been lost. I’m a terrible storage provider in comparison. An analogy to what you're saying is that someone who leases a car doesn't really get the benefits of that car. But that's not really true, is it? If you lease the car you're the only one who gets to drive it. Tangible data ownership is more of a philosophical preference than a matter of "does this solve my problem or provide me with benefits?"

by chx 3y ago

dangus 3y ago

If we are talking about data ownership, that is not relevant here. Whether the drive is removable or not has no bearing on whether you implement a 3-2-1 backup. Data stored in one location inside a portable device is always at risk. Drop the laptop in the bathtub or lose it in the airport and the result is the same soldered or not. Nothing about an Apple system stops you from backing up to an external drive (or even booting from one) and the external I/O is fast enough for high-performance SSDs. Let's go down the data ownership road, though: The consumer didn’t need to be brainwashed into cloud storage. Dropbox didn’t need a Super Bowl ad to become a household name. The services solve a real problem, one that existed before drives were soldered. In mayn cases you can't solve the problem for the same amount of money on your own (just put a cheap Synology system and two hard drives in your Amazon cart along with replacement disks every 3-6 years and tell me how much that costs compared to the $8.25/month you pay for Google One. I'm not even sure you can make it breakeven, ever). Hell, I’ve never given Dropbox a dime and they have stored and synced all my important documents for almost a decade now. Not a single item has ever been lost. I’m a terrible storage provider in comparison. An analogy to what you're saying is that someone who leases a car doesn't really get the benefits of that car. But that's not really true, is it? If you lease the car you're the only one who gets to drive it. Tangible data ownership is more of a philosophical preference than a matter of "does this solve my problem or provide me with benefits?"