It is not the first time that one of these companies suffers a leak, hack, or even bug that deletes certain user data specifically, what could happen to us any day, losing the hundreds of GB that we have in iCloud, or the Google photos if we also use this service.
Secure alternative to iCloud
And, as we said, although it is rare for your data to be deleted from iCloud, many things can happen, not only an Apple failure, but someone breaking into your account, or for any reason, whether it is a natural disaster , accident, etc., you are without internet for a couple of months, or you simply do not realize that the subscription has not been charged, which would lead Apple to eliminate your cloud space by not paying.
There are a thousand details that could cause all your data stored for years in the cloud to disappear overnight, which no one would like, so looking for an alternative is ideal.
Among the possible copies that we can make, the most typical is to use an external drive to save the information, something that, although it is great and a great option, does not give us the possibility of accessing that content from internet, and we would have to physically go with it.
That is why there are devices called NASwhich, to summarize, so that someone who does not know them can understand them, are hard drives, but connected to the internetso we can always download our photos, files, etc. to them, wherever we are, as well as access them from anywhere.
This not only offers us an extra copy of everything we have in iCloud, but it will also allow us to pay less for online space if we only want to have what is important, since the NAS is ours, and we will not have to pay subscriptions monthly, just buy a 4 TB disk (for example), and fill it as we want.
Have a NAS prevents the Google or Apple service from being hacked, interrupted, or simply disappearing from one day to the next, since the equipment we have is physical, and will be in our houseso even if there is a global catastrophe and there is no Internet, we will be able to access all that content that we have previously stored there.
And you, are you one of those who trust all your information to a third-party server, or do you have something similar to avoid running out of your information from one day to the next? It seems like it will never happen, but the best thing is, even though they are big companies, not to trust anyone but ourselves.
