Dropbox is a very good place to save, store and share your files "in the cloud." It's secure, and free. IF you have more than a few GB to store, then there would be nominal fees.
Dropbox works with your PC or Mac, your desktop, your laptop, your smart phone, your iPad, etc... So you can backup, and.or share data files among your devices, or with selected friends, safely and securely.
Please accept your personal
Dropbox invitation HERE, <== click it!
Why Dropbox?
- You never want to have all your eggs in one basket...
- On your PC or Mac Hard Drive?
- IN your Microsoft® OUTLOOK data, address-book contacts, emails...
- On Google... Gmail... Google Docs...
- On Apple's iCloud...
- On Dropbox... etc...
- It's a handy way to securely share stuff, among your own devices, or with friends.
Pick at least one (or two) CLOUD-based locations to keep your most important data.
What if you lost your smart-phone? What if your hard-drive crashed? What if your laptop were stolen?
Be prepared for the worst, and make a good backup plan for your data:
• Use a big USB flash-drive? A 32GB USB flash drive now costs under $40.
• Use a terabyte USB external drive? A Terabyte now costs under $100.
(A terabyte, abbreviated TB, is 1,000 GB or 1,000,000 MB, or over 200 DVDs!)
• In the Cloud, via Google, iCloud, Amazon, HP, BOX.net, SugarSync, or Dropbox?
Do a data-backup at least once a week. It's good to use a different removable storage, with rotation monthly. Swap that USB Thumb Drive with the one in your Safe-Deposit box, once a month. How much is your data worth?
Besides using the cloud for my data that is updated often, I use Apple's Macintosh TimeMachine for my weekly backup. That saved all my data from the hard drive failure. It takes about 20-30 minutes, once a week, for that TimeMachine backup of my 500 GB hard drive. I dismount, unplug, and put that drive in a safe place, offline, when not actually doing the weekly backup. TimeMachine also permits continuous, online backups, but I guess I am just too paranoid...
But, is Dropbox secure, reliable, versatile, and here-to-stay?
Dropbox CEO: We’ll integrate with everything
Cloud-storage startup Dropbox just closed a $250 million funding round...
Having used Dropbox (and Sugar-Sync, and Google cloud, and Box.net) for more than a year, I can say they have all been reliable and highy available. You can get 2.25GB for free from Dropbox, use my link. Add another 250MB for each friend who accepts your invitation to join Dropbox, too!
UPDATE: Not just for backups, Dropbox also makes it very easy to (securely) share folders and files between you own devices, and with your team: Your Desktop, Laptop, Home, Office, iPad, Tablet, Smart phone, iPhone...
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