Best Cloud Based Storage for Archiving Photos?

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Hi,

I currently back up all my photos (circa 500gb worth) onto 2 separate portable hard drives. I would like to transfer all these files onto a cloud based platform. Not bothered about backing up any others files...just want somewhere to store my photos securely.

Can anyone suggest or recommend some options.

I have dabbled with Google Drive but not sure this will be workable...from my limited use it appears that Google Drive only syncs/back ups the files/folders that are in the Google Drive folder. The Google Drive folder is on my main SSD boot drive which is only 256gb. Therefore not enough space for all my photos etc. Not sure if you can change the location of Google Drive folder to a secondary drive (will check this later today).

Cheers
 
Belive Amazon drive gives you unlimited space for photos, though not sure what file extensions it counts as photos
 
amazon drive has some kind of size limit on the picture files. if you want to store high res stuff then they count towards the storage space. RAW files also count towards storage space.
 
pc-guy said:
amazon drive has some kind of size limit on the picture files. if you want to store high res stuff then they count towards the storage space. RAW files also count towards storage space.
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All my RAW files haven't been counted as storage. I've got hundreds of GBs of RAW+JPGs on Amazon.
 
+1 for Flickr

Don't use RAW but to save all my photos from both phones on the same account is great. I take so many photos of the family and then I have train commute time to delete the ones I don't like.
 
Google Photos + https://photos.google.com/apps

You install it, set it to monitor changes in a certain folder, it auto backups up all photos in that folder + subfolders.

I created a shared google account for my wife and I purely for backing up the family photos. Installed this, 22K+ photos backed up. Software isn't perfect, can stick now and then but normally it works fine. Unlimited space on google photos if you chose the correct option.
 
Photos being "free" seems very sinister.

I mean imagine I set up a little company, and say "oh your limit for storage is 10GB, but photos of your wife and children are completely unlimited you can send me as many of those as you possibly can"

It seems absolutely messed up. Would not be using such an obviously perverted service.

I bet if every single user uploaded a million phallic images, this "free" service would be shut down overnight.
 
asim18 said:
Photos being "free" seems very sinister.

I mean imagine I set up a little company, and say "oh your limit for storage is 10GB, but photos of your wife and children are completely unlimited you can send me as many of those as you possibly can"

It seems absolutely messed up. Would not be using such an obviously perverted service.

I bet if every single user uploaded a million phallic images, this "free" service would be shut down overnight.
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that is a weird way of looking at it.

I think photos are free because 1) there are generally no Rights issues with them as the people who owns the photos tends to be the people who either created them or bought the rights of the photos 2) photos are small in sizes compared with music and videos so 1000 photos will probably be 1GB in size (although raw files will be much much larger than that). so generally it is economical 3) photos are sentimental to people who own them so offering a free service for photos means people are more inclined to use it and therefore use the paid services - it is basically a loss leader service

Docs aren't free because they are generally viewed as commercial. a document usually has intrinseque value attached to it, let it be an essay for a degree or a contract for a project. so if it carries some kind of commercial value or anything that is seen to increase ones wealth or value then the companies obviously want a share of that :) it's like taxation.

Videos aren't free just because the shear size of them, not economical for a cloud storage provider to give them free...
 
Why not just have a Nas setup/2 usbs drives that are swapped out bi weekly one that can be kept somewhere bar the house?
 
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