I’ve been an Apple environment loyalist since the ’80s. Thankfully my preferred virtual storage is iCloud. I have more than one Google account. All but the Princeton alumni workspace account have 15 GB limits as does the (still free) Dropbox account I acquired before other options existed. For me, 22 GB remains generous for my Workspace account.
However, I don’t fully trust “the cloud” to safeguard photos family history and genealogy documents I don’t want to lose under any circumstances. I have 1TB of flash storage on my MacBook Pro and maintain Time Machine backups on external storage drives at home and at a relative’s home in another city.
Regardless of what Google or any other service does with storage options, disaster recovery planning requires considering every possible way that critical data might be destroyed or otherwise become inaccessible.
I’ve been an Apple environment loyalist since the ’80s. Thankfully my preferred virtual storage is iCloud. I have more than one Google account. All but the Princeton alumni workspace account have 15 GB limits as does the (still free) Dropbox account I acquired before other options existed. For me, 22 GB remains generous for my Workspace account.
However, I don’t fully trust “the cloud” to safeguard photos family history and genealogy documents I don’t want to lose under any circumstances. I have 1TB of flash storage on my MacBook Pro and maintain Time Machine backups on external storage drives at home and at a relative’s home in another city.
Regardless of what Google or any other service does with storage options, disaster recovery planning requires considering every possible way that critical data might be destroyed or otherwise become inaccessible.