The cloud is someone else's hard drives. Use your own hard drives. An SD card or thumb drive is nearly useless to me because of the volume of files I own. Only hard drives, and multiple backup drives, can work for me. Floppies, ZIP disks, CDs, DVDs, and even Blu-rays quit working for me a long time ago.
I have a lot partly because I save every single thing on the internet I find interesting, such as all the memes, videos, and some entire websites. I have over a million MP3 files and something in the range of 100,000 books on the computer. I have most of the comic books back to the 1930s, most existing old time radio shows, thousands of magazines, and much more, over 100TB.
A thumb drive is useful for the most important files that need to survive no matter what. I have a number of them at various locations.
The cloud is someone else's hard drives. Use your own hard drives. An SD card or thumb drive is nearly useless to me because of the volume of files I own. Only hard drives, and multiple backup drives, can work for me. Floppies, ZIP disks, CDs, DVDs, and even Blu-rays quit working for me a long time ago.
I have a lot partly because I save every single thing on the internet I find interesting, such as all the memes, videos, and some entire websites. I have over a million MP3 files and something in the range of 100,000 books on the computer. I have most of the comic books back to the 1930s, most existing old time radio shows, thousands of magazines, and much more, over 100TB.
A thumb drive is useful for the most important files that need to survive no matter what. I have a number of them at various locations.