Online Storage

Online Storage

1. Advanatges of Cloud storage

   • The data is available anywhere providing you have access to the internet.
   • Some online data services are free, but these can be a small amount of storage possbily 5GB which will require payment when they need upgrading.
   • You can easily share data with others.
   • your data is backed up online which reduces the need to carry around an external hardrive.

2. Disadvanatges

   • You have to trust the organsiation that stores your data and that they will keep your data secure.
   • The online data storage may not be reliable.
   • you will need internet connection to be able to get access to your data, this can be frustrating if using 3G.
   • You have less control of your data as you dont know where its being stored

3. Examples of online storage companies:

   • Adrive, Box, dropbox, mozy, Deel datasave, wuala, justcloud, livedrive,

4. A definition of online storage would be the folllowing: online data storage refers to the practisce of stroing electronic data with a thrid party service accessed via the interent. its an alternative to traditional local storage (such as a disc or tape drives) and portable storage, it can also be called "hosted storage" or "cloud storage"