LutonSpurs
Eric Dear
Currently back all my photos up on hard drives but feel it's time to but the priceless pics of my family on cloud somewhere.
What paid or free service do people use?
What paid or free service do people use?
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Cloud Storage
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Flickr will give you 1TB for free, and Google photos is free and unlimited (if you use their lower resolution service) I also use Dropbox at £79 per year and Amazon photos (Unlimited pictures, 5gb of video on their Prime service) Also as above, Apple photos. I use all of these as back ups as I have no physical storage anywhere
LutonSpurs
Eric Dear
Thing is you have so many photos now so printing is tough.
i have amazon prime so i can use that, I hadn't noticed they offer free cloud as part of it.
Papercut
Jermaine Jenas
@LutonSpurs
Yeah that's the problem and where do all the albums go?! Perhaps a combo of both whereby you back-up what you can but make prints of a selection (something I'm looking into).
I have Prime too but haven't even checked half the stuff (only needed it for the delivery option).
Are these sites definitely secure? Mr Paranoid here
Yeah that's the problem and where do all the albums go?! Perhaps a combo of both whereby you back-up what you can but make prints of a selection (something I'm looking into).
I have Prime too but haven't even checked half the stuff (only needed it for the delivery option).
Are these sites definitely secure? Mr Paranoid here
Dvds perish over the 5-10 year scale. I used them to archive at work and hurriedly had to move them all to a new media - they weren't cheap ones either.
Also, once a dvd starts dropping a few bytes it becomes very difficult to recover from.
Be careful you don't upload them to a site that reduces the quality of the image like Google (and some of the others I'm sure do the same). I use Onedrive as I got a free offer ages ago so got 25GB for free but I'd say the best are Box or Dropbox which both have really good mobile capabilities as well. Dropbox is also integrated in MS Office and stuff like that if you need it.
Trouble is none of them are what I'd consider expensive but because people aren't used to paying for this service it seems like it is.
Trouble is none of them are what I'd consider expensive but because people aren't used to paying for this service it seems like it is.
Rorschach
Ricky Villa
One drive is good if you are a Windows user if a bit fiddly to set up at the start. To get the best out of it you should make your default Windows documents/pictures/etc folder to also be the one drive folder (i.e. they should be one and same). If you do this then every change that happens to your files gets replicated immediately to the cloud. I have it setup across two PCs so any change I make on one PC is copied straight to the cloud and immediately down to the 2nd PC (a laptop). Just to complicate things a little further I have only some folders replicate for local space reasons, so I have only a the files I am working on locally really moving up and down to the cloud.
1TB of one drive space and Office 365 on one PC and some skype credit is €7 a month, about £5 or so.
I would advise that you should always have a 2nd local copy of a your files on a hardrive or NAS folder too in case of a zombie attack on the One Drive server vault or a bug in one drive itself (which is infinitely more probable). Also you can't use NAS folders as one drive folders which is rather annoying but a minor quibble.
1TB of one drive space and Office 365 on one PC and some skype credit is €7 a month, about £5 or so.
I would advise that you should always have a 2nd local copy of a your files on a hardrive or NAS folder too in case of a zombie attack on the One Drive server vault or a bug in one drive itself (which is infinitely more probable). Also you can't use NAS folders as one drive folders which is rather annoying but a minor quibble.
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