We all know by now that Cloud is not just a fancy name
for uploading files to a server. It goes much further and provides a lot of
flexibility especially for us, freelance academic writers. I experienced it
myself once when my laptop passed away and took all of my work with him. It was
disastrous for me so I decided to look for new solutions and I found them.
OneDrive and Google Drive offer 15GB free of charge,
with 10GB from Box a little behind
and Dropbox in the end, giving away
only 2GB. Dropbox, however, can be
upgraded to 16GB with special actions such as referrals. A growing stash of photos and videos will soon need
more. In this case you may consider OneDrive
and Dropbox 10$ per month for 1TB
paid plans or 7$/1TB per month for Google
Drive. But I would rather store photos and videos on external hard drive
cause, you know, I’m not ready to pay for space in the Internet yet.
App of choice depends on which features are important for
you, as some of them are able to greatly enhance your work. In Google Drive, for example, you can edit
your documents right in the Cloud with built in-office suit and shared access
for multiple users.
As far as special features go, OneDrive organizes the files by type and has an auto-upload feature
for photos. It comes built-in with Windows 8 and 8.1.
Dropbox is one of two apps
that support Blackberry (the other being Box) and the only one that
works with Kindle Fire. It comes with auto-upload for photos as well. Box has an endless list of sharing and
privacy features, including comments and notifications.
I strongly recommend storing your work on cloud
because freelancing supposes that your tasks can catch up you anywhere. You can
access your unfinished essay or research paper at your friend’s place, while
traveling or visiting your parents. That’s very comfortable and much safer than
relying on your laptop. Remember my case; you don’t want to feel that way as I
did.
So, stay calm and back up
your files.
P.S. What cloud storage service do you use?
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