driftwood2

Hello Cloud Storage, Goodbye Consumer Hard Disk Drives

Cloud storage will definitely be useful for mobile purposes but it's just too slow and will never be fast enough to replace local storage. Even if everyone had fiberoptic lines, it would still be too slow with any foreseeable technology. Also, it's always cheaper to buy than rent so why pay the extra cost for cloud storage? Online backup companies are cost hundreds of percent more per GB to store data than simply buying hard drives.