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Old 10-30-2024, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by rsmurano View Post
Cloud is only accessible by wifi? What? Everytime you log in to Google mail, iCloud, or whatever cloud from your phone, you think you are using wifi?
You can get to the cloud using LTE, 4G, or 5G cell service.
I wouldn’t use a flash drive either for files, I would get a usb disk that doesn’t need any external power. But that’s the last thing I would do.
If somebody can come in and steal your computer, where are your important files? Probably not encrypted, probably not password protected.
And people wonder how their valuable info gets in the wrong hands.
HDDs are cheap, TBs for Pennies. The days of compressing files to save space have been over for decades. My photos are tens of MBs in size for each photo. I keep them in this size so if I want to modify them, I have all the data. If I have to send a photo in an email, then I convert it to a jpeg.
No, it's only accessible if you have INTERNET. The cloud is an internet-based storage system. If the cell tower is down and your internet service is interrupted (such as in the recent case of Hurricane Milton), then you have no access to the cloud at all.

So if you keep things on a physical drive with access to a charger (such as a cigarette lighter charger in your car, or a portable charger), then you have access to everything you stored on your physical drive.