week 4 guiding questions - maximroz/SYS140-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Have you used cloud storage in the past? Do you prefer local or cloud storage of your data? Explain your answer.

Cloud storage offers convenience in exchange for speed. While its easy to throw open google drive and plop down some files the speed of the transfer often depends heavily on your internet and how many people are using your wifi. Despite this, I still value convenience over physical storage. Unless it is for photos. I keep all my photos on labeled SD cards.

Do you think adding more platters to a hard drive increases or decreases its mean time between failures (MBTF)? Adding more platters to a hard drive decreases the mean time between failures because there are simply more places for the drive to fail.