>Embrace the personal cloud
The idea of the personal cloud is really taking off. For consumers, it usually comes in the form of a hard drive you connect to your router. Such hardware is typically straightforward to set up, and you can then access the content stored on it from any device, wherever you happen to have an internet connection.
Conceptually, it’s not a million miles away from iCloud Drive, although personal cloud devices tend to be geared towards dumping huge amounts of content on to multi-terabyte drives. But like iCloud Drive, they are not a substitute for backups. The most important factor is that personal cloud hardware of this sort is still on-site, meaning that key files should still be backed up to the likes of Backblaze — and to another local drive, too.