In technology we trust
Even though you are the more optimistic pearson in the world you have to admit that if something happen to your laptop the week before a presentation with your boss, or the submission of final assignment, you would despair. I would drive crazy too.
Backups are the only solution to recover all datas and be agile in case some damages occurs to our Mac.
Hardware backups are the best one and the more secure, but they requires the hardware, that in some case is costly and for some people could be a problem carrying out the hard-drive and his cable.
I cloud in my opinion is the best solution to have all your file continuously updated and secured.
GDrive is a fair alternative and also OneDrive, both are offering convenient amount of GB of storage at a relatively cheap price per month.
