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Where do you usually save your file and want to share it with another device after you finish doing it? Most of you might answer a USB flash drive, hard disk, or CD. If you find it easy enough, why don’t you take a look at how to use cloud storage.
What is Physical Storage?
Long before flash disk or hard disk appears, people used a Compact Disk (CD) to save their file or computer data. This method considered not practical because there are several steps needed before burning the file into the CD, but CD was meritorious, right? CD still used until today, widely used for song or movie cassettes. Flash disk as we knew is practical. You can buy it for various storages offered, start from 8 to 256 GB. You only need to plug the flash drive into your PC or USB port on your computer. You can or may not create a folder in the flash drive. You can drag the file that needs to be saved to your flash drive or just copy-paste or cut-paste the file into the flash drive. Before you know how to use cloud storage, you must know what it is.
What is Cloud Storage?
Cloud storage is the same with physical storage, but the system of storage is cloud-based technology. So, you will not have physical storage because your data will be saved in your cloud storage account. It’s the same as hosting that the file is saved and the hosting must have the data centers to save the file. There is also the capacity for each user to use cloud storage. You need to pay for premium or unlimited storage, but many websites offer 15GB for free. Cloud storage can be used anytime and anywhere. The file can be accessed at any device that has a cloud account. Cloud storage also can recover the data, so don’t worry about file lost. It also requires an internet connection.
How to Use Cloud Storage?
You need to create an account for Cloud storage. It is the same when you want to create other accounts, you can create a unique username or hard passwords in order not to be hacked easily. Upload the file. You can put the permission (Public/Private) so the other can access the file that needs to be shared. Cloud storage is also able to save big files that the physical can’t.
So, now you know how to use cloud storage. Which one is better? Do you prefer physical drive or cloud storage?
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