[quote=barnaby33]How about just using a cloud backup service. Why mess with a local drive at all?
Josh[/quote]
A few reasons. Privacy, reliability, and cost for me in that order.
There have been so many data breaches that I really don’t trust anyone’s ability to safeguard my information.
Reliability – I have seen backups fail way, way too many times. Either they are misconfigured so that they weren’t storing what I thought they were storing, or the mechanism or media failed, or on and on. I’d say as high as 25% of the time that data needed to be recovered, it was unrecoverable. I don’t trust anyone but me with my data redundancy. I never do incremental saves…I wipe the disk and make an entirely new copy of everything. Time consuming yes, but I’m 100% sure all of the files are there and the latest version.
Third, it does cost a bit. However, 12TB drives aren’t cheap either so its not a major driver in my decision.
