The Best and Worst of cloud storage

External hard drives come with no guarantee-no warranty tag, which means they can ditch you any point because of their vulnerable nature. And you may end up losing your critical digital stuff.

So we suggest you to discard all these devices right now.

But hey, wait!

Move your digital stuff to a better and safer place before, and no prizes for guessing, that place is cloud. But even with the cloud, there has to the positive and negative aspects. So let's have a look at that -

Four advantages of cloud storage -

Cost - Buying an external hard drive can be expensive, while Internet hard drive storage providers offer users pay-as-you-go options, which is far cheaper than physical storage. Some of the gems of the cloud world like Google drive, UC drive, iCloud, Box, Dropbox, Sync.com, OneDrive offer users with free storage option right in the start.

UC browser's in-app storage UC drive leads the list while offering 20 GB of free unlimited cloud storage space to a user, that he/ she can get just by signing up for the drive from the Gmail or Facebook account within the browser. Plus, one can store online movies, unlimited songs, video clips, and other downloadable content in its vast storage, with the advantage of remote access and sharing capabilities.

Accessibility - One of the biggest advantages of the cloud is that a user can access the files remotely, irrespective of time and place with multi-devices, just with a decent internet connection.

Recovery - Cloud acts as a backup solution for your physical drive. So, if you face a hard drive failure issue or in worst cases, lose your device, then too, your day is saved.

Syncing and Updating - Whenever you make changes to files stored in the cloud, it will be synced and updated across all of the devices that you access from the cloud.

Two disadvantages of cloud storage -

Internet Connection - You always require an active internet connection to access the cloud. You won't be able to use it without having an internet connection that meets a certain strength requirement.

Privacy - Once you upload your digital stuff on the cloud, you give an authority to the provider too. In other words it means that your digital stuff is no longer only yours.