You should back down, albeit slightly. There's nothing wrong with the cloud and there's nothing wrong having your own NASes and external drives. The person in

You should back down, albeit slightly. There's nothing wrong with the cloud and there's nothing wrong having your own NASes and external drives. The person in question was consolidating from old drives to the cloud, then transferring to new drives, using the cloud as a temporary stopgap before moving to new drives. Seemingly they were trying to do the right thing. Nobody here is saying the cloud is a solution for all technical problems, just like we're not saying NASes and external drives are a complete solution either. The average person doesn't have the technical knowhow to setup and use a NAS, perhaps a single external drive and that is fraught with danger.