Your business has files and data that have to be secured and stored in a safe way. You may be able to do that by storing in on your computer or an external hard drive or now popular online file storage facility. You may need to choose online file storage facility over disk drives and DVD’s when your files get bulkier as time goes by. Risk of losing a storage device from hardware damage and viruses from your computer would likely to occur. And if there is someone who would like to bring misery to you could simply steal your device from your office and disappear with your files.
Though the use of USB storage, DVD, flash drive or computer hard drive makes your files readily available anytime as long as the devices are on hand, but it’s troublesome to carry with you storage devices when you are going places and needs to access your files from time to time. Though portable storage devices nowadays are cheap but the risks of lost file has a higher risk than employing online file storage and possibilities are your device might be corrupted or subjected to physical damage causing your file to be irretrievable.
Online storage service may charge you monthly for the digital space you occupy to store your files, but you have the convenience of accessibility through any computer as long as there is internet connection unlike the disk storage that can only be accessed in one computer at a time. Hard drives can have big storage capacity but they still have limitations and you must provide another storage drive to store your files that would lead to gap in your files. There is a chance that you will get confused and spend time to search for the files on multiple storage disks.