My advice:
Buy an external hard drive.
No need for a “cloud”.
My company started pushing this as they prepared for layoffs; didn’t want to re-invent the wheel by re-creating spreadsheets and such already designed. It makes it very convenient to send work to Asia as well.
Ain’t globalization grand? /s
Do you need some kind of backup program if you use an external hard drive, or does such a program come standard on most recent macs?
Bingo.
My wife has a way of destroying HDDs of any kind.
I put her on a cloud backup plan.It justified it’s use the last unexpected rebuild/replace.
All she does is Internet and some Word. Keeping 100 plus tabs between 3 browsers might be a factor. I am a lowlife Trump supporter and working IT guy so my opinion means nothing until something goes wrong.
My main PC is a few years old and I do 4k video editing and the like. Pretty much 0 hardware trouble.
Photos and video live in a cloud.
I have very little in terms of documents at all.
Exactly. What the heck is wrong with having external hard drives to auto backup daily? Have a few and swap them once a week. Store in a cool dry place .
I just got a FOUR TERABYTE Toshiba external drive from NewEgg for a hunnert bucks. If you have a USB 3.1 port or USB type C port, this thing is lightning fast.
Precisely. Hard drives are cheap these days. Do a little research on hard drive speeds v/s giga bytes of storage and go for it.
The major problem with that is if you have a fire or other disaster you will lose all your information. That happened to a friend of mine. He was very conscientious about backing up but when the house burned down so did his backups. He lost all the records for his business.