If you run a node you will now need 4 times more storage space, can you afford it ?
Among all the stupid reasons to be against bigblocks, this has got to be the stupidest.
Storage is currently two-and-a-half US cents per GB.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/BCC might have a rough initial period due to limited mining support. But if it can make it through its infancy, it will likely become dominant. The ability to accommodate transaction demand make it a long-term winner over cripplecoin.
bring on the split. as long as there's a big block version of bitcoin, then it is ensured that at least one version of bitcoin can be used as p2p electronic cash. the other chain can be as competitive or feeble as it wants.