Online Storage VS External Hard Disk (advantages and disadvantages)

[iPanik]

I need some clarification:
Are we talking about Online storage in the form of you buying some gigabytes on some server and dump your stuff on that?
Or are we talking about the cloud thing where you rely on Goggle, Microsoft, dropbox, facebook etc. to store your content across their services?

I use that second option, and in my opinion that is much better than any external storage.
If you only buy some gigs on a server, then you are better of with an external HDD.

[BoXX28]

We're talking about the Online Storage in the form of Gigabytes.

[jamescv7]

The capacity of the storage in GB since aiming for it needs a budget thing there just to satisfy the needs.

[iPanik]

oh, ok... as you were.

[McLovin]

Have always used a External HDD, and never had any problem with it. If in the future online storage comes down in price (or I get richer ) I might try it out but at the moment I am going to stick with my External HDD.

[Dieselman]

Online storage is the cloud. Any online storage or cloud service does the same thing. It a place to store your documents or pictures and share them with family and friends. It can also be helpful when you are working a document from home. Upload it to the cloud. Go to work. Log in and download it from the cloud. But online/cloud storage should not used to backup critical items such as pictures or videos. Sharing is fine but using it as your main source, that's a bad move.