Notably this article is from 2008, which is when Dropbox was first founded.
2. Disk-as-a-service - you pay, you get, you stop, you lose. Everything.
3. Oops, your cloud provider blocked your account. For the great justice, for porn, because their stupid government decided that your stupid government is their new enemy, or because it's just Google.
4. You don't have Internet anymore. Earthquake caused by either a volcano or drunk neighbors disrupted your only line. And they're too busy to fix it.
5. You've lost your key. Gaymower.
6. (there may be more)
That's fine but you're in a thread where I started by saying terabytes.
Or they go bankrupt, whichever comes first.
Statistically speaking I know which I'd bet on.
With interest rates on the rise, and the price of GB consistently deflating, I think economics is on their side. I'm willing to take a 100-year bet).
We don’t like to think about this, but when my dad passed we were eventually able to find some of his writing and other things that were important to him and us, that we didn’t really know about.
His google drive kept his digital stuff safe, but stopped doing so after the credit card shut down.
(It goes without saying that you have to have more than one place to store your backups.)
If you kept duplicate copies at the top N cloud providers at any given time, then you could probably go for 1000 years if N>=3. But this would require an active effort to keep your data alive as companies came and went. A true archival copy can be ignored and still be readable.