Cloud storage: what are your options?

Grazed from IOL SciTech.  Author: Ryan Peter.

It seems that just about everyone is offering cloud storage these days and it’s something you should be using too. But how do you choose the right cloud storage option that suits you?  What is cloud storage? Well, simply put, it’s all about having a backup hard drive drive on the Internet that you can access from just about any computer that has Internet access. So instead of lugging around a USB stick (and losing it) or an external hard drive, users can copy files to their cloud storage and download them to another computer.

But cloud storage is more than just a place to leave files online. You can also use cloud storage apps to automatically back up certain folders on your hard drive so that the second you create a file in that folder it uploads to your cloud drive. So if your hard drive crashes, getting all your important files back is an absolute cinch and you don’t need to worry about backing up to an external drive every day…

And if you work across multiple machines, for example a work machine at the office, a home PC and a laptop, you can set up your cloud storage accounts to automatically keep your My Documents up to date on each machine…

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