Between several of the different cloud services I have quite a bit of space. I’m still not sure I’m ready to make the cloud into my hard drive, though. All of my mp3s have been uploaded to Google Music, but other than that a few files here and a few files there. I’m thinking of uploading all of my family pictures to Google Photos.
How much do you save to the cloud?
Zero.
Pretty much all of it. Almost nothing is only on the cloud, though.
Nada. The only thing I used to have were a few files on the web page/ftp server of my ISP. They closed that down not too long ago.
I would love to have backups to The Cloud. Once it’s secure and easy. You can have one or the other now, not both.
All my email is on the cloud (Gmail), although I also archive it daily to my computer. Nothing else.
Nothing. Except I think perhaps the backup of my iPhone is stored there. I’m really not sure. I don’t save anything intentionally to the Cloud. OF course, other than work stuff I save on the work server, I don’t think I save anything anywhere.
Virtually (see what I did there?) none.
All the pictures I took with my phone. Anything Google might be storing there (possibly emails, I’m gathering from this thread?), a few GB worth of files that I had to transfer from one computer to another.
A lot. Between Dropbox and Onedrive, I store nearly all of my personal files and thesis research files. The research-related files also get continually backed up to a university server. And nearly all my email is through Gmail. I use other assorted google services as well.
Zero. I back up my iPad and iPod to my desktop, and my desktop to an external drive and a couple of flash drives. Storage is cheap.
I have no control over some computer box or boxes thousands of miles away, and my mistrust has been reinforced when they’ve failed humongously worldwide and when they’ve been attacked successfully by mobster hackers and government.
I don’t believe the cloud hype by Microsoft, Apple, Kim Dotcom or anyone or anything else.
Very little. I use Dropbox etc. only for file transfer between sites, clients, etc. Nothing is stored there and none of it is “personal” info or material.
I can see the usefulness - I use Google Calendar, but only because it got too difficult to sync Thunderbird/Lightning with my phone - but I really, really don’t like the idea of third-party storage. Especially the very distributed, out-there-somewhereness of cloud apps.
None. At least I don’t think so. I have no idea how to access it, or really even what it is. The idea of “online” storage is a strange concept to me.
I don’t use the term “cloud” to refer to “space on someone else’s computers”. Talk about your silly neologisms.
I save a handful of files to my ISP’s available FTP space that I’d hate to lose from something like the house burning down, but that’s it. Well, there’s my posting history on the Straight Dope and other such places, and my blog , I suppose. For everything else, I have local backup and in many cases multiple copies on multiple computers, which is fine for protection against hard drive failure or someone stealing my laptop (or me forgetting it some day and not being able to get it back).
I don’t have a huge mistrust of the privacy-invasion potential incurred by saving all my stuff on someone else’s computers. (A moderate mistrust, yeah, but I’m not obsessed with that). But I do have a huge mistrust of the eternal availability of such services. I still use POP mail. (For those who’ve never used anything but gmail or yahoo, POP mail is where you use an actual email program and download your inbound email to your own hard drive and then delete it from the server after you fetch it; your outbound email is saved on your own hard drive and then forwarded to the server for sending to the recipient and they may or may not keep a permanent copy but you have your own local copy which is what you see in your Out box).
I like my files being available to me when I’m not online.
The benefit of having your data on the cloud is that you can easily access it multiple ways: from your desktop, your smartphone, your tablet, your laptop, your computer at work. If you don’t have it on the cloud it is a big pain to be synchronized across devices–so the vast majority of people have some data on one device and other data on other devices.
Types of stuff on the cloud include Facebook and other social media, email (like Gmail), photos (like Flickr), music (like iCloud, Google Music, Spotify), online storage (like Dropbox), notes (Evernote).
Makes sense. It’s why I don’t have a smartphone. I don’t want multiple devices. I’m holding out until one single device can run full-blown MacOS 10 or 11 or whatever and multiple monitors and fullsized keyboard and mouse and all that when docked and also be a cell phone when I pick it up out of its cradle.
My cooking classes, my schnauzer and my $17.29 I owe the Department of Public Safety are all in the Cloud.
I use dropbox partly for sharing among my home, office, and travel boxes, and partly for backup. But I dont use the coud for anything. Nor see any reason to.
I agree. It’s just marketing. Apparently some marketeer noticed that system network diagrams would sometimes depict remote networked resources as a cloud, meaning “outside the scope of what’s being discussed here” and thought it made ordinary network services sound high-tech and invulnerable. It’s no more invulnerable than the security and availability of the server and the network it’s attached to, and it doesn’t denote anything new except the increased propensity of some software and content vendors to sell services to complement or replace local applications and content, and push both the sharing aspect and the alleged invulnerability as the selling points.
Basically, I work in the cloud.
Commuting was hell until I started working from home. 
Besides the emails that stay there, very little stuff. Some photos or docs that were easier to share. DSL upload speeds pretty much negate using it for much data transfer or as a backup device.
Plus the fear that once my stuff is there, the price will go up and it will basically be held for ransom.