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Confused about the use of cloud drives
I am very confused about the use of cloud drives. Tons of commercial cloud drive service are now available. I am currently trying dropbox, iCloud (Apple), google drive, etc. I am not storing much files in these drives. What I understand is that if I want to buy 1 tb space in DropBox, my hard drive should have an equal amount of empty space (i.e., 1 tb). If that is the case, in order to use another 1 tb from google drive and also from SkyDrive, my hard drive should have further 2 tb empty space in my hard drive. That means I cannot have many cloud-based drives in my computer. Am I missing something? What I like those cloud drives is that I can see and read files in cloud-based drive from my other computers, iPhone, and iPAD. Because of the requirement of empty space in my computer, I am not enthusiastic about using cloud storage service. Please enlighten me.