USB flash drives used to be all the rage when we’re talking about a portable place to store your information and take it with you everywhere you go. Along comes Based Storage Services and now people can access their data from any computer’s web browser.

What’s the Story with Based Storage Services?

Storage Services that are based refer to systems like the Cloud. Before you can use other computers to access the information from the cloud you have to take the files you want to save and upload them from your computer. The catch comes when after using the first few free gigabytes (GB’s), you have to pay for the rest. It usually comes in the form of an annual subscription. And please keep in mind that the only thing protecting those files is your password. (You can also password your files on a USB flash drive just in case it ever falls into the wrong hands, which is one of the downfalls of using USB flash drives. These are easily lost and tend to store old versions of something that you may already have updated into a new version.)

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It looks like a pair of USB flash drives that actually fit one on top of the other. After loading information that you want to save into the pair, one drive stays in your Home Computer whereas the other one can be connected to any other computer. By inserting this second flash drive into a computer you will be to access everything on the flash drive that is still connected to your Home Computer. No information is actually carried on the flash drive itself, so that if it falls into the wrong hands, those hands don’t exactly have access to your data.

These twin devices sell for approximately $99.00 for the pair.