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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 5754712" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>One Drive is like a very very expensive and secure external hard drive being locked in a safe in your office.</p><p></p><p>Only the hard drive is owned by microsoft, and is locked away somewhere very very safe, in a dark, fire protected, air conditioned room with a near unbreakable power supply. And there aren't just one of them, there are thousands of hard drives living there, chilling out and keeping folks data.</p><p></p><p>And it is likely that your data is probably being stored in multiple locations on multiple drives, so even a Tomahawk missile hitting one particular building in say, Hawaii, won't destroy your data- because other copies exist in say, California. And Alaska. And Frankfurt.</p><p></p><p>Suffice to say it behaves very much like just another folder on your computer but is constantly updating itself to save your data. As I work on assignments using MS office apps, it is constantly saving itself again and again every few minutes. If my computer was destroyed in the next 10 minutes by a house fire or a suitcase nuke or a 3 year old hammering the keyboard, the files would remain safe and I can retrieve them having installed one drive on my phone. Get on any other internet connected PC, login to one drive and there are your files.</p><p></p><p>It is a bit like depositing £100 in your local bank as opposed to putting £100 in a shoebox under your bed.</p><p></p><p>Google, Apple and multiple other companies offer the exact same service using a similar app. OneDrive just happens to be the microsoft version that seems to work well natively with windows.</p><p></p><p>Dropbox is another.</p><p></p><p>There are also web site based services where you can upload data remotely and have it stored. OneDrive just happens to be a lot more user friendly and is nearly free in some cases. I get 1 TB of storage free just by paying for MS office, you could be doing academic work for years before you will create 1TB of work as most document files are tiny.</p><p></p><p>Here is a video of one of Google's data centres. It's basically a building designed to house harddrives. [MEDIA=youtube]zDAYZU4A3w0[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 5754712, member: 54866"] One Drive is like a very very expensive and secure external hard drive being locked in a safe in your office. Only the hard drive is owned by microsoft, and is locked away somewhere very very safe, in a dark, fire protected, air conditioned room with a near unbreakable power supply. And there aren't just one of them, there are thousands of hard drives living there, chilling out and keeping folks data. And it is likely that your data is probably being stored in multiple locations on multiple drives, so even a Tomahawk missile hitting one particular building in say, Hawaii, won't destroy your data- because other copies exist in say, California. And Alaska. And Frankfurt. Suffice to say it behaves very much like just another folder on your computer but is constantly updating itself to save your data. As I work on assignments using MS office apps, it is constantly saving itself again and again every few minutes. If my computer was destroyed in the next 10 minutes by a house fire or a suitcase nuke or a 3 year old hammering the keyboard, the files would remain safe and I can retrieve them having installed one drive on my phone. Get on any other internet connected PC, login to one drive and there are your files. It is a bit like depositing £100 in your local bank as opposed to putting £100 in a shoebox under your bed. Google, Apple and multiple other companies offer the exact same service using a similar app. OneDrive just happens to be the microsoft version that seems to work well natively with windows. Dropbox is another. There are also web site based services where you can upload data remotely and have it stored. OneDrive just happens to be a lot more user friendly and is nearly free in some cases. I get 1 TB of storage free just by paying for MS office, you could be doing academic work for years before you will create 1TB of work as most document files are tiny. Here is a video of one of Google's data centres. It's basically a building designed to house harddrives. [MEDIA=youtube]zDAYZU4A3w0[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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