I am kind of a cloud storage guy because I always think that local storage is unreliable.
I have accidentally dropped my one and only WD My Passport Ultra removable hard drive which stores a lot of precious data, I can’t read anything from it after it’s dropped. Ouch..
And after watching the video on Austin Evans, I decided always to keep the 3-2-1 principle.
3-2-1 means 3 copies of data, stored in 2 different kinds of medium(like one for your mechanical drive and the other on LTO tapes.