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Personally, I prefer to store files etc on external hard drives. It's a mix of not liking how little control I feel I have over my files when they are being stored by a separate entity (if you can call it that), but also because as I become gradually more aware, I just find it harder and harder to be okay with the idea of having thousands of servers all over the world in datacenters standing there, running full time, nuking the environment, just so I can have my memes and vacation pictures etc accessible at all hours of the day and from any device I use.
I know it's probably more complicated than that, and I also don't judge what other people do, as we all pick our battles. I just can't help but feeling weird about all this cloud-type shit that all the tech-psychos want us to use, become dependent on and charge us for. It just doesn't feel right to me.
Look into M-Disk.
100-120GB Blurays.
Yes, indeed, why would you?
They're basically bulletproof, hard drives can corrupt slowly over time, and you may not realize that one file among thousands no longer functions or opens. Those solve that issue cheaper and more environmentally than a NAS, especially of you want to archive sensitive and personal data.