Slightly better than Amazon Au ($175) at $169 delivered.
If you can pick up even better at $159.
Crucial MX500 2TB 2.5" SSD $159 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ PCByte
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how many tb of photos do you have?
Over 1TB
i have 3tb. i dare not imagine downloading 3tb.
cloud maybe as secondary backup. but once you upload, download it to check
ssds apparently are not good for long term unpowered storage.
i personally don't trust the cloud to make available all my photos if my main storage fails.
depending on what sources of images you have, a nas may be best.
i manage three household member phone photos, plus my dslr photos, plus underwater camera photos, with offline on site backup, offsite disk backup, and moving 1yr window of photos replicated in OneDrive, plus multiple photoframe Android tablets that autoupdate from a Google drive account .
I would be very surprised if a home nas run by a random Joe would be more reliable than cloud services maintained by probably the cream of the crop engineers.
sure, but then go ready about people struggling to get their data out of backblaze cos its slow, etc.
making an offsite hdd copy, with maybe annual integrity check is not hard
Cloud services, the main issue is our slow NBN. Upload is slow, downloading a large ISO file won't be fun. Also, family members streaming TV shows or movies from the cloud all the time, doing cloud backups / restores during regular hours will impact them.
That said, for photos, cloud backup is quite handy.
Western Digital tends to disagree.
@MagnamoniousRex: WD does have cloud services (https://www.mycloud.com/#/) and there was a massive outage for 2-3 weeks for essential mycloud services, which I think WD had to initially come up with some temporary hack to allow users to access the local storage portion when the customers cannot login to their cloud accounts.
It had some other impact which meant for 6 weeks, I could not claim Adobe CS 1 month free trial with my WD SSD purchase. Once WD resolved its cloud issue, Adobe then had another issue. Both customer support teams blamed each other (asking me to talk to the other support team). WD support was super annoying initially, insisted on getting my personal details and asked for photos and then went, sorry, our cloud servers are broken, there is nothing they can do (so I simply had to wait).
Even AWS only promises 99.9% uptime. For the past 2 years at least, AWS made sure we don't get 100% uptime. But hey, they only promised 99.9%, so 6 hours outage is still within the Service Level Agreement (technically, 8 hours outage a year is still 99.9% up time). After my recent WD experience, there is no way I will buy WD cloud based products or any products with WD cloud features. Also, Adobe is shrewd.
Cloud services have different threat profiles to your data than a home NAS.
Sure, they have staff who are better at making sure things don't vanish from hardware faults.
They also have policies and procedures that will screw you without warning or recourse.
It might take one forgotten payment to lose all stored data.
It just takes one bot scanning the stored content to miscategorize an uploaded file and nuke your whole account.I've personally seen situations where the user isn't even sent an email telling them they're banned, let alone what they're banned for - the first and only indication of the ban is attempts to use the account give a generic message and fail.
Likewise I've seen policies where the user is only permitted a single email to appeal if they are banned, where they do not get told when the ban started, what files were allegedly naughty, what kind of naughty thing they are accused of; and the user must guess what it might be and include evidence to prove their innocence in that single email to the support/appeal address they are permitted.At least with a physical HDD in a cupboard you can be confident that the data will be there in a years time.
Extend that to keeping a second HDD in another building and you are protected against about as much as you can protect againstOnly a fool would not keep a copy of their data on drives they physically control.
In summary, buy an external HDD for your backups.
@voltafunk: I do both, main storage on my server and encrypted backups to the cloud, but for a regular person being flagged and banned is infinitely less likely than accidentally (profanity) up their own server and losing their data.
@MagnamoniousRex: Any recommendation for poor people like me who still owes a bank lots of money (and the bank just informed me the monthly repayment is going up once again) on good and cheap cloud service to use for backup?
Multiple backups would be good, just local backup at home isn't ideal. But, I am cheap so hoping not to make too much for cloud backups (also my NBN plan is a cheap one - so slow upload).
150GB Blu-ray discs
Blu-ray RW discs (smaller capacities)
DVD-RAM discsThat's about as long term, safe and stable as you can get.
Forgot to add dvd-rw discs to the mix. In fact, I didn't realise this, but dvd-ram discs ceased production in 2019. They're still around in single layer and dual layer (as NOS), but they're not as cost effective as dvd-rw.
I do have a spare nvme as secondary backup photos, and it's power on inside the PC. also another copy on three tranditional HDD respectively.
don't really trust cloud especially in a situation without power or internet.
And the prices continue to drop
Come on Amazon price match
I’m not very smart, I just bought a PS5 - is this compatible to expand the storage? Thanks in advance
not unless you attach it as an external drive. A simple google will tell you
With a SATA to USB 3 drive enclosure? Yes.
However, You'll only be able to play PS4 games directly from it: https://www.playstation.com/en-au/support/hardware/ps5-exten…
It's not ideal. The storage you need to install and PS5 games has to be a PCIe gen 4 x4 NVMe SSD.
USB external SSD to store PS4 option, this one is good I guess, but not great. With PS5 supporting USB 3.2 gen 2 USB, you probably would go for PCIe gen 3 x4 NVMe SSD because a USB 3.2 gen 2 SATA enclosure is not much cheaper and you are not getting the max speed of USB 3.2 gen 2.
Best to talk to a mate who knows a bit about PS5 to help you.
MX500 is $179
BX500 is $159Standard pricing
FWIW there is this if you are quick. I got the 2nd to last one.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/125663041675?epid=12032149101&ha…
Seller refurbished
This good to backup photos on osx?
I really need to backup my photos.
Was also thinking oh getting iCloud as a backup.
Anyone done something similar or better?