Saving on Cloud Storage or External Hard Drive

It is left to you to take care of the external drive as you would any other gadget in your possession.

it's possible. So, you're prefer to save your backup on external drive, then, what's your mind to against any damage for your external drive?

Well you can keep your external hard drive in your private space or your closet. There are also waterproof casing for such devices you can purchase from an accessories and gadget shops.

Amazing opinion. I agree with your reason. But, what will you do to keep your external hard drive safely from any damage? There are many damages wait to our external hard drive, like get wet, viruses, disappear, etc. What's your opinion about it? Of course, cloud storage have the risks too. But, i think it will be less than external storage.

Nice share.. But, what's your opinion if your data were very big to upload and download it back when it's needed? May be you can split it, but, how many time you spend to do it? Please forgive me if my words were very rough.

How big is very big? Do you have any idea of the actual size you have? Are we talking a couple kilobytes? Any as big as a megabyte? How big is the flashdrive you store this on - or do you need multiple flashdrives? I don't have any large documents right now, but most of my single documents are in the range of several hundred kilobytes. I've seen documents that have to be measured using megabytes. However, the space allowed on the cloud is multiple gigabytes. The free space is usually around 5 gigabytes. As far as the downloading time, it should be comparable to getting your files off the flashdrive. The document has to be loaded into the memory of the computer. The correct program needs to start. Then the program can open your document. The only real difference in downloading time would be that if it's on the cloud, you would have to go to the website of the company where your information is stored and navigate to your cloud storage before you could open your document. One thing you might try is to take another document, it doesn't have to be your main information, and store it in someone's cloud. To make yourself more comfortable, choose something you wouldn't mind losing. Make sure it's backed-up on your flashdrive. Then make some changes. Close it. Open it. Use it like you would if it were your main information. See what exactly you would have to do in order to use the cloud. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to talk you through it. I noticed one poster mentioned the possibility that the company where you are storing your things could go out of business. This is true. It's possible. While I really don't believe a reputable company would just shut their doors one day without any warning, it's definitely something to consider. However, there are alternatives. My suggestion would be to use two locations. There's no way they would both go out of business at exactly the same time without any warning. If one goes out of business, you would still have everything in the other system. You could then look for a new 2nd location. The site I mentioned earlier has 12 free sites. Microsoft is one. Microsoft should be fairly secure. You could choose your other based on size or any other need you might have.