For a long time I've been using multiple hard drive and flash drive based solution to backup certain crucial data and it has worked great for me as my location is secure and nothing leaves the house. 

But If you are looking to store media, maybe back up some videos or music most online cloud storage would be fine I suppose. But what if you want to backup private information and any sensitive data? Your Steemit Masterkey? 

Hard drives can fail, they can accidentally fall and so many things can happen. It so happened to me that once I dropped a hard drive thanks to a puppy I was fostering at home jumped on me when I was connected to the drive and my reflex action made me move my laptop which pulled the drive off the desk and sent it crashing to the floor. Shit happens. 

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<center><sup>[Source](http://blog.webwerks.in/cloud-hosting-blog/what-are-the-advantages-of-cloud-storage-for-businesses)</sup></center>

Couple of years ago I also had my things stolen along with my laptop and it's impossible to retrieve information when you are on the road and something of this sort happens. It's fine if it happened and you can access your backup hard drives an hour later but that's not always the case.

Do you trust in any particular service provider with information like this? Please don't suggest iCloud. What about passwords you don't want to store on Lastpass or password managers? 

As they say, it's only a matter of time till an online storage solution gets hacked. However, we've certainly come a long way in terms of security with AES-256 encryption enabled services.

I've now basically narrowed down to the services provided by [Sync.com](https://bit.ly/2Mjtkhe). I like the fact that they have 2 factor enabled logins in addition to a whole lot of other interesting features. Their free service fits my bill for now as I'm not looking to store large amounts of data just yet but eventually I'd like to backup 2-3TB of data online. 

I'm already using Zoolz and have a 1TB account there but it's very slow, the features on the desktop app aren't good and the download speed is crap! 

If you are aware of any service that's better than 'Sync' feel free to let me know in the comments below. There are many reviews online but I'm looking for some personal feedback from anyone here with some expertise in the domain. 

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