Hi, currently in hunt for online storage space for photographs just in case any of my external HDDs decide to fail on me and leave me with no memories.
I think around 1TB should be enough?
Used to use dropbox but USD$13/month is just too pricey.
Whole family uses iPhones and iCloud is $15/month…
Anyone know of cheaper alternatives?
I have several external hard drives but heard nightmare stories of them failing and people losing all the saved photos so I'm just looking for online alternatives :) don't mind losing all the movies and music files but photos, I definitely want to save securely.
Considered just uploading all photos onto fb but they don't allow high resolution photos.
Maybe i'll have to go with google drive.. sigh
If your intention is just backup, consider Backblaze or CrashPlan. 5 (USD?)/month, unlimited storage. Only caveat is you can only back up from one computer (unless you pay extra), and it's not really designed for sharing in the same way OneDrive et al. are, but if all you need is a backup in case of drive failure then that's exactly what they're designed for.
This. Or a combination
The problem with blackblaze and crashplan is that they are a backup - not a storage AFAIK. That means that they only mirror what you have.
I have about 1TB of photos and I don't need them often, the older ones I would happily just store in the cloud, delete the local copy, and download them if I need, but that's not an option with backblaze and crashplan.
You can actually set CrashPlan to never remove deleted files from the archive. But that's not really the purpose and I'd be wary of relying on it.
Anyway, my suggestion was under the assumption that the OP wanted to keep a local copy. In your case, yea, purely online storage is required.
I wonder how archival services like Amazon Glacier compare. Better if you don't access it much if at all.
@elusive: Thanks for the suggestion! Yes I do keep copies in my portable external HD but not on my computer :/ Checked both Crash Plan and Backblaze but as I don't keep the raw photos on my laptop that would be backed, it won't be much use :(
@evy:
If you think they're otherwise good, then that might not be a problem. They might be able to just upload while connected, and you can leave them disconnected otherwise. Could shoot them an email to ask and confirm.
@elusive: AWS Glacier costs from USD$0.007/GB/month and Google Cloud Storage Nearline costs ~USD$0.01/GB/month — Nearline is quite a bit faster on retrieval, but has no Australia data centre option if it's required.
For Amazon you can also archive your stuff on Amazon S3 (lots of tools available for that) and set the life cycle policy to move them to Glacier to save money when not in use. Still, 1TB would cost at least USD$7/month + the cost of uploading & retrieval.
/gif photo storage
I'm interested in this as well.
I came across this comparison last year which I found useful, albeit now probably a bit out of date:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8467289/cloud-photo-storag…
Thanks for that! I didn't know Amazon offered photo storage service! $12USD/year sounds amazing for unlimited storage space! Might check that one out.
Why not Google Photo? Isnt it free if you dont exceed file size?
most of my dslr pics do exceed the file size unfortunately
Office 365 + 1TB OneDrive is 12AUD per month… half that if you use cheap Telstra starter kits to pay for it. And you get Office 365.
Google Drive is $10 USD for 1TB.
EDIT: or just buy another 1TB external?