Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Online Storage: Don’t put all your eggs in
one basket
Recently, more and more guys move to online storage.” You’ll never have to
worry that a computer crash or virus will destroy all your files because they
will always be safe 'n' sound up on Xdrive" then AOL online storage
business kicked the bucket. So do you think the online storage business is a
good business model? Moreover, do you think you online storage is really safe?
I am a big fan of Google documents and Microsoft skyDrive, with the later service;
I can get 25GB free space online. The question is: Is the free service always
good? And of course like Kodak, you can pay for the service. But if you pay for
the service, why not buy your own backup tools? There are HDD is dirty
cheap and almost every laptop comes with DVD burner. More and more motherboards
also come with RAID chips.
Of course, with online storage, with an internet connection, you can get your
data on other PCs wherever you are. But it is like double sword, without
internet connection you will go nowhere.
And there is another issue you have to concern. Will Your Data Disappear When
Your Online Storage Site Shuts Down?http://www.pcworld.com/article/164858-3/will_your_data_disappear_when_your_online_storage_site_shuts_down.html.
What if the online storage site shuts
down suddenly? Although yahoo! Allow you to retrieve you data within 1 month. Some
other small online storage websites might just give you 24 hours.
And did you encounter the Google outage
yesterday? Maybe you need check this out: Google Outage Lesson
http://www.pcworld.com/article/164946/google_outage_lesson_dont_get_stuck_in_a_cloud.html
It is always good to store your precious data on your own way. IMHO,
RAID, external storage or internal storage or even DVD are all better.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.