Classic mistake just fell into the same trap

So this guy I used to work with back in 2018 told me I should never trust cloud storage for anything important. He said it was a fad and everyone would be back to external drives within 5 years. I actually listened to him and kept all my business photos on a couple of hard drives. Fast forward to last month when one of those drives just clicked and died. Lost about 3 years of client work. My buddy is still using Google Drive with zero issues. Has anyone else had some old timer give you advice that sounded smart but was actually terrible?

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emeryn831d ago

Oh man that stings! I had almost the exact same thing happen with an old coworker who swore by keeping everything on physical media because "the cloud is just someone else's computer." I bought into it hook line and sinker and kept all my family photos on a stack of SD cards instead of anything online. Then my dog knocked over a shelf and I lost vacation photos from 2016-2018 (including my mom's 60th birthday). Meanwhile my sister has been using Dropbox since 2014 and never lost a single thing. Guess who spent a weekend trying to recover corrupted files with no luck? This guy.

skylergrant1d ago

And that's the thing, physical media is great until it's not. I had a buddy who was the same way about keeping all his music on a massive hard drive instead of streaming. He had this whole collection of rare bootlegs and demos from the 90s that he'd been curating for years. Then one day the drive just clicked and died, no warning, no backup. He spent like three months trying to find a recovery service that could pull anything off it, and by the time he gave up he'd lost most of it. Meanwhile I'm over here paying for Spotify like a sucker but at least I can listen to whatever I want whenever I want.