It's easy to see where these concerns originate - it seems like every couple of weeks we hear about some big company or service being hacked. Sony Entertainment Network, Zappos, even Symantec, which makes the Norton Antivirus software, have been the victim of hackers. And Internet giants, like Microsoft Hotmail and Amazon, have experienced service outages and data loss.
As far as data loss, cloud services are far more reliable backup solutions than external hard drives. Yes, in rare instances cloud-based services have lost data, but external hard drives can fail, too. What's more important is not whether your backup solution can fail, but when it will fail. An external hard drive is far more likely to fail at the same time as your computer - whether from fire, flood or theft - resulting in total loss of all your precious photos. If a cloud service fails, you still have the original photos on your PC.
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