Cloud Storage Buzz

There are many different threats to keeping your data safe. Hard drive failure, computer theft and disasters like fire and flood can cause you to lose all of your precious personal and work files in an instant. Backups are essential to keep your data safe and thanks to the improvement in cloud storage and backup solutions you have a number of choices to keep your data safe and sound. With so many services available to the consumer it can be difficult to sort through all of the options to find the best for you. Take a look through our reviews and our ratings to help you find the perfect cloud storage or backup solution for you.

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Our 2023 Top 10 Cloud Backup Services

These ten services are our top choices when it comes to cloud backup.

1. Backblaze – Read our review
2. CrashPlan – Read our review
3. Carbonite – Read our review
4. IDrive – Read our review
5. SOS Online Backup – Read our review
6. SpiderOak – Read our review
7. Acronis – Read our review
8. SugarSync – Read our review
9. ElephantDrive – Read our review
10. Zoolz – Read our review

Latest Posts from the Blog

• Backing Up Game Files with GameSave Manager
  It can be heart-wrenching to lose your game saves. Hundreds of hours lost to the ether! And since games use a variety of different file paths to save your progress, it can be difficult and tedious to track down all of your save files so you can back them up. GameSave Manager deals with both …
• How To NSA Proof Your Cloud Storage and Backup
  If you dislike the idea of the possibility that some government agency, like the NSA or any of the Five Eyes snooping on the data you save in the cloud or even just to keep your data safe from any number of hackers and malware out there then there are steps you can take to …
• World Backup Day 2023
  Happy World Backup Day! This is one of my favorite days of the year because it helps draw attention to the fact that people need to remember to not only backup their computers, smartphones and tablets but that they should also check their backups and make sure that they know how to restore their data …
• Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited First Impressions
  Amazon Cloud Drive is now offering unlimited plans for photos and for everything and many people are probably taking advantage of this great offer from Amazon but there as a few issues I have already run into in my trial that I wanted to share. First off the unlimited plans appear to be US only. I …
• Amazon Offers Unlimited Cloud Drive
  Amazon just announced how serious it is in the consumer cloud storage market by releasing an unlimited cloud drive. This is a serious shot at the likes of Dropbox, Google, Microsoft and every other cloud storage provider out there. This is different than the S3 and Glacier storage service that many people are used to from …
• j2 Global Buys SugarSync
  j2 Global continues on their cloud storage and backup buying spree, this time by snapping up SugarSync. While J2 was unsuccessful at buying Carbonite in late 2014 they did purchase Livedrive earlier in 2014. The press release on the j2 Global website states that the purchase of SugarSync helps J2 Global expand their cloud backup …
• SugarSync Desktop App Major Update
  I noticed on the SugarSync blog a little while ago that they have recently released a major update to their desktop application. The short list of updates to SugarSync 3.5 new desktop app include:File Transfer Status: This new feature lives in your system tray or menu bar and shows you which files are …
• Livedrive Closing Resellers
  It looks like the sale of Livedrive to j2 Global, the same company that has tried to acquire Carbonite, is now having an effect on Livedrive resellers. Yesterday there was a comment that came in mentioning that DrivePop was closing down. DrivePop was a Livedrive reseller, who was actually sold to Tapnet back in September …
• Backup Rule of Three or the Backup 3-2-1 Rule
  I find it surprising that Cloud Storage Buzz, has been online in some form since January 2009, and somehow we have never talked about the computer backup rule of three. I don’t know why we never talked about it, perhaps because we always just assumed that people know these things, but we all know about …
• Syncthing, Open Source Alternative to BitTorrent Sync
  I like BitTorrent Sync, it is a pretty amazing piece of software, but I can understand why people would have problems with their model. It is closed source software and there have been criticisms that it is not secure. BitTorrent Sync is also planning a paid version that will cost $39.99/year, and to be honest …