Cloud storage and syncing are wonderful but there are flaws that you just can’t ignore.
First, you have to pay a good amount of money to get a lot of storage. Second, it is always slower than a local connection. Thirdly, there are some serious security issues associated with cloud storage.
Snowden himself has described Dropbox in particular to be very unsafe to store your files. Here are 3 cloud storage alternatives:
1: External Hard Drive
This is probably the most obvious choice of the lot. You can go about it in two ways. The first involves using Allway Sync to sync both internal and external storage. The second approach is to keep your external hard drive connected to your system. One thing you should keep in mind is that you shouldn’t use the same external hard drive for storage and backup.
2: Encrypt files locally
You might not know who Google, DropBox and Microsoft will share your files with. So, the best thing to do is encrypt the files and then upload them. While there are a number of ways to do this, storing your files in a Veracrypt container is a popular one.
3: Opt for a secure cloud service
Big storage companies might not protect your files but some small ones do. One such company is SpiderOak which can encrypt and decrypt files on your PC with a key that you can access. For that matter, SpiderOak cannot access your files because they can’t access them at all.