Even though a hard drive with a terabyte (or 1,000 gigabytes) of torage can hold thousands of photographs, songs and movies and costs less than $ 100, storing your files in a distant commercial data center, encrypted and secure, increasingly makes nore sense. Cloud backups are appealing for another reason: as computers become more mobile, such as laptops, tablets and smartphones," you need to have reliable access to the data anywhere over an Internet connection.