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This may be a nab question...

My wife and I take a lot of photos and videos of our children on our phones but lack a decent backup solution. My Dropbox allowance is used up and plugging the phones into my PC to back up the files just doesn't really happen.

Is there some sort of external or internal hard drive that our phones will automatically connect to via wifi and upload our photos to this drive? Sort of like a home Dropbox that needs no user input or effort. And an inexpensive one else it's not going to happen.

Perhaps everyone has such a device and I've just never come across them!
 
It's the space I need and cloud services don't offer enough without forking out on a continual basis. Got 50gb on dropbox and it's not nearly enough. A video of a baby batting a toy takes up a lot of space...
 
WD MyCloud - 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB

I bought mine for about £120 2TB and love it, my PC hdd was full and instead of installing new hdd's, i decided to get a NAS server, now my hdd is about 20% full with OS, games etc.

I know the 2TB is on offer for £99 from a main retailer at the moment.

It attaches to your Router, and is accessible by my PC, phone and tablet all the time.

Great buy, but wish i bought a bigger drive for the sake of not having to manage what i put on there as i download a lot of Bluray films for the kids to watch on the TV (via WD TV Live)
 
If you have a home server or a PC that's on 24/7, OwnCloud is hard to beat. Basically a personal DropBox etc, with as much space as you have HDD space.

ie my OwnCloud is currently running at about 8TB, but I could expand that out until I run out of HDD bays in my case (or a bigger case)

Alternately OneDrive (Microsoft's DropBox competitor) comes with 1TB if you have an Office 365 subscription, or I assume you can buy it separately.

The only tricky one is if you have an iPhone, as only iCloud and Dropbox (badly) can automatically sync your photos up, as far as I know. One guy I saw got around this by having his server sync to his (unupgraded) iCloud account and just set up a script to automatically move the photos out into his OwnCloud every how. A little fiddly to set up, but a neat solution to take advantage of iCloud's automatic uploads, without the storage restrictions.

Personally I just bought the £1/month iCloud upgrade and pull the photos out once a month or so.
 
what are peoples opinions of the WD my cloud?

my work supply the WD my book world ones and I find that they are terrible for failing weather it be the NAS drive that goes itself or the drives.

i recently had a HDD fail which had some data i needed to get back but as its dead its not a option unless its the data recovery route.

its the first HDD i have had fail in the many years of computers and i don't really have a good backup in place. i have a external HDD 3TB which i use but thinking the NAS drive maybe a better route to go and this is what is used for storing stuff on
 
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I'm using seagates 2TB homeNas ... Grabs all photos uploaded to FB and Twitter etc , remote acsess , dlna and upnp support . Multiple users and permissions etc , got my wife a folder , a public acsess folder for films etc and a private folder for backups etc
 
ED209 said:
what are peoples opinions of the WD my cloud?
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As stated above, I love mine, but wish i had gone for a bigger one, as 2TB in todays age isn't much.

I was advised to go for a Synology 2 bay device, but that was about £120 without any hdd's.

Hope this helps :-)

Gaz :)
 
GazEaton said:
As stated above, I love mine, but wish i had gone for a bigger one, as 2TB in todays age isn't much.

I was advised to go for a Synology 2 bay device, but that was about £120 without any hdd's.

Hope this helps :-)

Gaz :)
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my work supply the sinology drives to customers and I admit they are excellent drives but they are also very expensive and with Christmas round the corner i don't have the funds for something that much.

i think you can get a 3TB my cloud box for about £120 or £100 for the 2TB version but just questioning how long they will last as experience with the WD my book worlds are bad (my work supplied them before going to sinology) and they where forever failing either enclosure side of things or the drives themselves failing

as my funds are not loads at the moment and don't get option to always buy things like this i would like it to last
 
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