How to Store Data Online

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Zach with Expert Village and today I am going to talk to you about on-line storage services. On-line storage services offer generally cheap and sometimes even free alternative to buying external storage devices. On-line storage services range from free to expensive depending on what your needs are. Free services are usually just as reliable as pay services but you don't have as much capacity and you might be limited as of the file types you can store or even just the number of files if not necessarily the size of the files. Whereas pay services not only allows you to store unlimited amounts of information but you can also use the tools that they provide you with to send in files to other people on the network, the e-mail or special downloading. On-line storage is great for sharing information with other people but without having to deal with things like burning CD's or swapping floppy disks or things like that. "