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As the digital revolution continues to improve on file creation and sharing capability, we need more and more storage space to keep up. All our .docx’s, mp3’s, PDF’s, and JPEG’s need somewhere to go — and the container to hold them has to be large as well, as common file sizes are increasing in size. Outside of purchasing additional hard-disk space for your computer, which can be expensive and inconvenient, what options are there to store our growing file collections? In answer to your question, here is a list of the top five online storage services available to date, and a short review of each. Long live cloud technology!

Last year, my sister’s family computer crashed. In it were all of her kids’ baby photos, her treasured recipes, her husband’s spreadsheets and documents, and all the financial accounts for her home-based cupcake business. The term nightmare does not even begin to describe the chaos that the crash had caused: there were literally hundreds of hours’ works that went into her husband’s office files while she really relied on the computer to schedule and coordinate cupcake orders and store client information. But like a true mom, she most deeply laments the loss of her kids’ photos.