Here's why I use the cloud lot and why an SD card doesn't begin to do the job. For me comparing SD and cloud storage is ridiculous. They're too different.
I need to keep 2 phones, 2 tablets and 2 PCs, one Linux and one Win 7, all backed up and everything synced. This includes 5 email accounts, 4 contact lists, 3 calendars, thousands of documents, photos, etc etc for 2 businesses with offices in our house and our personal stuff. And I don't feel backups are truly complete unless they are saved to multiple locations.
That's a lot of work to do manually, plus manual backups can miss the most recent changes, additions or deletions. So I've automated about 99% of it and configured it so that backups are immediate.
So how is this possible?
I use cloud services extensively. Some people are paranoid about cloud storage but I don't know how I could accomplish such thorough data redundancy, security and easy access from anywhere and using any platform without it. And it's automatic!
Mobile apps and desktop clients for Google Drive, Dropbox and Insync plus FolderSync and Cloud HQ's cloud storage sync services handle automatic backup and distribution of files. Google Drive and Dropbox apps and FX File Explorer make everything available tap-tap easy on mobile devices without taking up valuable local storage space.
All email accounts are IMAP so mail stays in the cloud as well as on devices. Google stuff is backed up to Google accounts. Photos taken on phones are automatically immediately uploaded to Google Drive using FolderSync. Backups created on devices for apps like AquaMail or Nova Launcher are also immediately uploaded by FolderSync. A few minor odds and ends are manually backed up and sent to the appropriate Google Drive storage for that account.
We have 5 Google accounts. One Google account has 1TB storage on Google Drive which is included with our Google Fiber service. That serves as a kinda master storage depot. A free 10GB Dropbox account is used as a safety backup of the most critical business and personal files.
Cloud HQ sync service syncs everything in Dropbox and 4 Google Drive accounts to the master Google Drive account in real time. InSync is used to keep everything on the master Google Drive storage synced to local storage on the Linux PC and the Google Drive desktop client handles that chore for the Win 7 PC. Dropbox clients on both PCs also sync Dropbox locally separately.
What all this means is we always have backups of everything in multiple locations, both cloud and local. And it's all automatic and done in real time. It took some thought and time to setup, but once done files sync around everywhere with no effort required.
Our house could burn down with our PCs and phones inside and we wouldn't lose any important records, photos or saved music.
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