there are lots of great benefits to having your data backed up online. But there are also lots of benefits to having your data backed up locally, on an external hard drive. It’s cheap, backups and restores are fast and you maintain control over your data.
Learning to use a "computer" of this scale may be challenging. But the opportunity is great: The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the world