i'm actually using ice drive which cost a bit to get started but is generally easier for me to use than my physical harddrive (which ahs a lot of stuff on it over the years and is very hard to use cause it's old and clunky) but definitely having back ups is for the best. i'm fairly sure i backed up a lot of the stuff but i can't say for certain that i backed up everything (i know one commission i bought that i definitely did not have a copy of but i have access to the artist's kofi so i can pull it from there, it just means i don't have the version without watermark which isn't a hardship)
at the end of the day, it's a difference between up front costs vs costs over time. physical hard drives cost more initially and may fail, but depending on how long you have a cloud drive, the price over time can be way more, plus there's always the fear that the service will go down indefinitely. so both have pros and cons.
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i'm actually using ice drive which cost a bit to get started but is generally easier for me to use than my physical harddrive (which ahs a lot of stuff on it over the years and is very hard to use cause it's old and clunky) but definitely having back ups is for the best. i'm fairly sure i backed up a lot of the stuff but i can't say for certain that i backed up everything (i know one commission i bought that i definitely did not have a copy of but i have access to the artist's kofi so i can pull it from there, it just means i don't have the version without watermark which isn't a hardship)
at the end of the day, it's a difference between up front costs vs costs over time. physical hard drives cost more initially and may fail, but depending on how long you have a cloud drive, the price over time can be way more, plus there's always the fear that the service will go down indefinitely. so both have pros and cons.
but thanks ;3; it sucks but i'mma just deal.
2 years, 5 months ago