[juliussmth]

I cna be strange but I still save all data on USB Flash Drives. In such a way I am sure that they are safe and nobody has access to them.

[green314]

Cloud may be useful sometimes.
Imagine you're outside, you forget to do something and thanks to cloud you can do what you wanted to do. If you hadn't have the usb/hdd/ssd where the data is stored you wouldn't have had the possibility to do what you wanted to do.

It's useful sometimes. I agree with you that of course using Cloud storage system imply a decrease of privacy and other possible problems.

[Drako]

Bad idea to store your data on a cloud service. I only use them when I have to share a download link with someone. But I don't trust any service with my own personal data. You don't know their encryption methods (or if they even use any at all), when the company could die or get shutdown by a government agency and you lose everything you've ever uploaded, and even if the company profits off of your own private files.

Its best to just keep some Western Digital 1TB or 2TB HDDs and run them in RAID 1 locally. HDD technology is ageing, and becoming cheaper. I've never had any Western Digital drives fail on me. In fact, I still have a HDD running for extra backup that's around 5 years old now. Anyways, if you get unlucky and some data gets corrupted or the drive fails completely, you've got a mirrored drive that will be safe thanks to RAID 1.

[mothered]

Bad idea to store your data on a cloud service. I only use them when I have to share a download link with someone. But I don't trust any service with my own personal data.

I couldn't have said It better myself.

Its best to just keep some Western Digital 1TB or 2TB HDDs and run them in RAID 1 locally.

Absolutely.

You can't go wrong with disk mirroring/fault-tolerance.

[DawgG2]

I use Google drive, I've never had any problems with it

[Dismas]

I used Dropbox years ago, but I don't recommend these types of services. If anything, I'd host an FTP server through a datacenter you trust.

[doperdoped]

You can still store files in encrypted manner in amazon aws glacier for very long term storage

[StormZeroX]

Local storeage and an external hdd backup

[2number9]

I usually don't use cloud storage, i have to hard drives 1tb each and for now its working for me. Cloud storage was never a good option for me and i tried for some time and lost part of my stuff

[privx]

Cloud storage can be an alright option as long as you encrypt your files and assume that the provider is storing everything forever.