Ask HN: Will We Start Using PC's Without HD/SSD Storage?
With all these cloud storage providers like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. Will we at some point start buying personal computers without storage?
Like centralised computing-power and peripheral displays, centralised storage is highly dependent on the network always being up. Without the network there's no storage, so no data, no apps, no work.
Whether the networks can be dependable enough is the critical factor. I think that it won't be dependable enough.
When companies lose millions due to an unexpected network outage, they will soon come back to insisting on local storage.
Here, we usually try to own as much as we can, and only rely on services when there's no other accessible alternative.