Cloud storage is appropriate, but you can eliminate any anxieties about security or other issues with a few adjustments. In cloud storage and syncing, you have to pay an annual fee if you need a lot of storage. It is always slower than a local connection and it has some serious security issues. To get rid of these problems, here I am going to suggest some ways to sync your data securely and privately around the cloud.

Network-attached storage (NAS)

Network attached storage is a device containing numerous hard drives and attached to your router. You will access the files on your local network on any computer.

How does it helps you when you are far away from that router?  NAS systems, such as the WD My Cloud Mirror, is providing a private cloud and using an improved Internet connection, you and only you can access the files on your NAS.

Use a Secure cloud service

Some small storage companies do protect your privacy, but big storage companies do not. Spider Oak which encodes and decodes the data on your PC and it provide a key to access into it. It won’t share the contents of your files because it cannot access them. It is the only way they will prove that they can be trusted with the customers information.

An external hard drive

This is the perfect choice and there are two methods to doing it.

  1. You will use a program (ex: Allway Sync)to sync your data among the internal and external drives. For example, when you change from one location to another, simply plug in the external drive, run Allway Sync and run the update. If you are moving to the other computer, you can sync the data again. (or)
  2. Access and edit files from external drive by keeping the external drive connected to your PC. Your data remains on same drive, so there is no need of synchronizing. If you don’t have USB 3.0 on both PCs this process will be extremely slow. You will have a chance toassign folders on the external drive to your Windows libraries. Make sure that don’t use the similar external drive for both storage and backup.

 Encrypt locally

Don’t you know that with whom Microsoft, Google and Dropbox will share your files? They can’t share much if your files are encoded before you upload them. There are a number of ways to encode the files. For example, VeraCrypt container. In this you will protect a folder without encoding it. You will truly encrypt a folder if the folder is actually a container. To encode a folder with EFS (Encrypted File System), click on the ‘advanced’ key by clicking on the ‘properties’ option. Check the encoded contents to secure your data and click on ‘apply changes’ when you close out the properties dialog box. This will apply changes to current folder, subfolders, and files.

True Crypt, is another example, it is a simple user interface and almost identical to the earlier program. You can create an encoded file container, or encode a partition or your entire drive or hide a container inside another file.