Using an external drive requires more effort than backing up everything to the cloud. You need to wait for your files to transfer from your device to the drive, and then sort everything into folders.

If you ever wonder why IT people are perpetually cranky, it's this: we have to somehow juggle impossibly conflicting trade-offs, navigate the capricious and inconsistent services of large, unfeeling, ...

I’ve been a Google One subscriber for a while now, opting for the 100GB plan after Google stopped unlimited high-quality backups in Photos. But between my personal usage, photos/videos from review ...

Google’s Drive and Dropbox are two of the most popular options for cloud storage and backup. Which makes sense, because the two platforms compete with each other intensely. Which one is right for you?

Duplicati handles the backup side of this hybrid setup. It's a Windows app with a web interface that makes scheduling backups ...

The forecast for your next phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop includes not just a chance of clouds but a choice of them. As in, which cloud storage service will you use to back up your files? The wrong ...

It used to be that 1 terabyte (TB) of storage was a lot, but now 1TB of storage is quite common to find on even the least expensive laptops. Over the years, a number of cloud-based storage vendors ...

Is Google ripping everyone off with its Google One cloud-storage service? I confess, this isn’t something I’ve thought about much, but a Lifehacker reader recently sent a letter to our tech-advice ...