Device storage or The Cloud?

[sheepdog]

Inspired from the Nexus 4 thread (credit to apb79 for the idea!), I was thinking what people prefer: on device storage or something like The Cloud. 

I've been one for wanting that SD slot but in reality, I've only used less than 1GB. Granted I don't store music or videos but judging by my BB Playbook 64GB usage, my entire music collection (>1900 songs in mp3) can be done in 10GB and 30GB for video of an entire 22 episode TV series (50 mins each), 5 feature films plus another 7 hours of video and still have space for other things. 

With wifi, cloud and personal web server/storage you can attach to your router, 16GB on the Nexus 4 is more than enough to do things in my opinion. I'm slowly realising they are better methods that I can call on rather than having it on one device and via multiple devices. 

My point is that things are changing and on-phone storage is going to be one of things that will not increase or even decrease. Is this going to stop you buying a phone or even a tablet because of the lack of internal/external storage? Or are our attitudes towards "The Cloud" being slowly changed aka like Google/Apple are trying to do? 

[adamtemp64]

On device storage unless we get unlimited data plans

[perksie]

I have to agree with Adam, the cloud is fine while I have unlimited data, but if I were to lose that I would need storage to be onboard.

[Liquid]

I would also be weary unless the company proves to be reliable.

Nothing worse than a ddos to stop you gaining access to important files.

One I'd love too see(like iTunes over wifi) would be the ability to acces your own central server across multiple devices. Using your own desktop.

[MI5]

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@Liquid wrote:

One I'd love too see would be the ability to acces your own central server across multiple devices. 

A bit like Google then

[Liquid]

Indeed

[Liquid]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/governments-attack-cloud-computing


Interesting problem (complication)

[perksie]

If they can find anything of interest in my cloud files they are very welcome!

Perhaps they will let me know?

[Liquid]

I'm sure they will do haha

[jonsie]

All my important stuff is backed up to my pc and to an external hard drive. I have back ups in icloud, google, sky and Save What Matters! Hopefully between them all, I can retrieve everything in an event of Apocalyptic implosion.

Call me old fashioned but should I shuffle off this mortal coil tomorrow, full instructions, passwords, bank accounts etc are written longhand and locked away in the safe! Sometimes the old ways are the best:smileyhappy: