Comment by usrbinbash

> Typically this has been because file sizes have either caused network issues or storage cost issues on the server side

And because of privacy concerns. And because people want to use their computers even when they cannot connect to the internet. And because people want the security of being sure they can access their files even if a company goes bankrupt/has an outage.

And because, no matter how fast networks get; I somewhat doubt that it will be faster to load a 2GiB 4k video file or a 7GiB pytorch checkpoint from cloud storage, than via the SATA or PCIe bus.