{"id":315,"date":"2014-09-21T19:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerpotatoe.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2015-07-14T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:25:33","slug":"read-this-first-if-you-need-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/2014\/09\/21\/read-this-first-if-you-need-cloud-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For A Way To Save Your Files Securely?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you looking for a safe and easy backup solution for your work files, or just looking to store some of your confidential and unlosable files somewhere? The Cloud is the solution (Read more here about Cloud<\/a>). And almost everywhere you look there are many solutions from Apple, Dopbox and less popular companies. However, you might already have\u00a0a large\u00a0Cloud space to store your files for free\u00a0if you have a Gmail or Hotmail account.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"GoogleDrive\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Google and Microsoft the owners of Gmail and Hotmail respectively have graced there loyal users with 15GB of online storage (aka Cloud)\u00a0linked to their accounts. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are\u00a0apps for your phone, programs for your PC or just login to access your files from a web browser. Google called its Google drive and Microsoft, Onedrive. You can search your App market to find them. Microsoft has also added a bonus for people that have it on their mobile devices and have auto photos backup turned on, by doubling the size which gives you 30GB.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is best about this type of\u00a0storage is you can easily access your files anywhere in the world and share it with whomever you might decide to.<\/span><\/p>\n

To give you an idea of how much data the online drives can hold see below a break down of common files<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have the camera set to normal capture like we normal folks, the 15GB can store 9000 or more.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Google-Drive-for-Android-File-List\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A 22 page Word document is 64kb on the new Microsoft Word 2010. The 15GB drive can store almost 2,500,000 of these files<\/span><\/p>\n

A song can be 6mb on almost best quality. W<\/span>ith the 15GB you can store almost 2500 of your favourite songs<\/span><\/p>\n

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Video files are always larger and the size depends on the length of the video. But the 15GB can store a lot of it, having in mind your phone without additional memory is usually 16GB<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion: Even though you will need to sign up for a Gmail or Hotmail account to use these drives, we can’t help but think this is a handy and cheap way of saving some of your most usable files, photos or video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you looking for a safe and easy backup solution for your work files, or just looking to store some of your confidential and unlosable files somewhere? The Cloud is the solution (Read more here about Cloud). And almost everywhere you look there are many solutions from Apple, Dopbox and less popular companies. However, you … Continue reading Looking For A Way To Save Your Files Securely?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}