Pedestrian Probably quite a bit but why would you waste your time on the most unreliable form of storage? Even general consumer cloud drives I wouldn't consider as a reliable backup even if you pay for it, they're not made for heavy use, I would only consider something like Backblaze acceptable as far as cloud storage goes.
Long term storage media reliability chart is:
Tape > Optical > HDD > SSD | > SD Card > Flash drive > 99% of cloud
SSD is the cutoff, it should only be used for booting and special use cases that actually require high speeds, only use the highest end SSDs if you don't love losing your data and never store anything important on one without a good ongoing backup solution. Everything below that, completely beyond unusable, SD Card should only be used for like the few hours at most that you're out with a camera and immediately dump it to a HDD when you're back, flash drives are completely unusable, every manufacturer without exception lies about the speed and they always corrupt within weeks at best, I'm not buying another one again, 0 real advantage over just using optical or external HDD or network share, etc. I would consider them the absolute worst but like 15+ years ago they were actually somewhat decent, I have some old ones still working and a huge pile of them bought within the last decade that all died within a few months at most if I wasn't actually using them to begin with, but they're only not the lowest bc of cloud storage obviously mines and sells your data, consumer cloud drives will often reencode and ruin data like images and videos, usually have terrible speeds and completely unusable for large files (even if you pay yes), they can randomly delete your stuff, etc.
Pretty clear how there is a push to get regular people to not be able to store their own data, its basically guaranteed you can still read any old scratched up disc, even old floppies and HDDs I've had good luck saving from meanwhile now they are intentionally selling defective flash (why do you think a 128GB flash drive can be had for under 10$ from the top brands but the same SSD costs at least 30$ from unknown brands? They offload the flash that failed in an SSD that would get returned into flash drives that no one will bother returning, thats not counting the fact most consumer SSDs are unreliable garbage too unless they're top of the line with high TBW ratings, its the main spec you should look for when buying an SSD) pushing severely restricted cloud storage, making local storage even useless thats included in like phones, forcing proprietary file systems, default encryption thats never explained to the user, etc. Unless your PC has full disk encryption (which it should) and you forget the password its basically guaranteed you can recover your data no matter how old the drive is or what OS/BIOS you used or whatever, good fucking luck on a phone, forget your passcode, you're done, Android update fucked up? Gone, crappy flash chip bitflips where the bootloader is and its impossible to externally reinstall OS on 99.9% of phones? Your data is still there on the rest of it but you'll never see it again and even if you did most of it is probably not saved inside open file format you can just copy off but probably locked in some proprietary format of whatever app you used to store it that may even need active internet/account/subscription just to access your local data, app corrupted due to whatever reason and refuses to open? (happened to me multiple times) Gone again.
