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by voiceclonr 3508 days ago
Not a good idea. As a personal anecdote, I had my 1TB HP simplesafe drive crash and I lost lot of precious pictures from recent years [Before moving to cloud]. The drive was Western Digital and none of the recovery software worked. You run the risk of drive failures with these and also not easy to migrate data once data grows or hardware evolves.
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DanBC 3508 days ago
> You run the risk of drive failures with these

All drives fail. Any drive can fail at the worst time. You must have back ups, and you must test your back ups.

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voiceclonr 3508 days ago
Agree. That's why I prefer to use cloud as they are replicated automatically.
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countingteeth 3508 days ago
"Use cloud," without more, isn't necessarily backup at all.
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ksec 3507 days ago
That is why use Cloud as a backup. But have the box sit in between to speed up data delivery.

I always wonder why this never have worked out. Most of today's Internet users aren't even running on 100Mbps. Why are we moving to all cloud? Why No physical box in between? For example Time Capsule that backups to iCloud.

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