[angrais]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but if you don't access data often, why not just buy an external HDD of say 10TB or such? Yeah, it's possible that data may fail, but is quite unlikely particular if you're not using it often.

[dehrmann]

House fires, power surges, theft, natural disasters.

[secfirstmd]

Yeh or a cheap Synology NAS or similar. Remotely accessible, raided, simple to setup.

[federona]

Remote storage, redundancy, and portability. At $5/mo/tb. you can still access any of it anytime you want, you just pay for what you actually download.

[gruez]

shucked hard drives go for around $15/TB on sale. Buy three for redundancy and it's $45/TB. The break-even point for that setup would be 9 months.

[dwohnitmok]

You're also paying for spatial distance and independence. Redundant backups in the same location can all fail together. See https://youtu.be/OAI8S2houW4?t=285 for one amusing case.

[jhoechtl]

Ipfs eventually.

[eru]

Well, plus a lot of hassle.