A cardboard, dummy floppy disk, retrieved from a 'not quite' MS-DOS compatible Apricot PC XI just before I flogged it. This XI also had a 10MB hard disk drive, which by the time I took ownership in around 1990 wasn't such a big deal. The cardboard floppy was used to protect the drive of the 'luggable' PC during transportation. The hard disk needed the 'park' command to park the read/write head in a safe location to prevent it damaging the drive once shutdown, a process no longer needed as modern disks auto-park their heads.
No need to consider that now, just pop your data in the cloud and assume someone else has taken responsibility.
Excuse me while I locate my stick-on red nose.
Always read the small print - have you have handed over rights of ownership; what happens if the cloud provider goes bust; what happens if your data is not as well protected as you assume - e.g. held in a single location; what happens if a legal case is made against the service provider and they suspend business; what happens if the data centre provider has similar issues; what happens if you need to end the relationship with your service provider and have to extract your data; what happens if your business critical data is the "small percentage" lost by the eleven nines uptime service provider.
No service provider will accept liability if your data is lost, not even for large customers.
I'm sure it'll be perfectly fine, it'll never happen. Well, it rarely happens.
Otherwise you might as well have saved your data on a cardboard, dummy floppy disk, or on a 10MB MFM RLL hard disk drive.
For official/internal use only:
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