I have quite a few pics and I want to consolidate them. Is Amazon Photos a good spot for this? I've heard of Legacy Box, but they're at 80.00 or so.
Anyone try Amazon Photos?
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I've got Google Drive to store them and Photobucket to show them online. Depends on what you plan on doing with them.
Invest in a LARGE external drive. I wouldn't trust off site photo storage.
Offsite storage should be one of everyone's backup modes.
I guess if you can live with the risk...
The risk is when your house burns down, is flooded or a tornado blows it to smithereens and all your stuff is stored at home.
So many ways yes…..
That is why it's advised to keep one disc stored off site (bank lock box for example). I have three external hard drive back ups.
3-2-1 rule. This rule should never, ever be ignored or varied from for data of any real value:
So you're going to burn a dozen or more DVDs every week or month to take to your bank? Pretty tedious. And how much do they charge? My Google drive is $2 a month. Upload from my computer anytime I have something new I want to store.
I don't burn DVD's (please review my thread). I use terabyte drives and keep one at my daughters house. It's not about the money. It's about control and security. I don't trust an outside source with my backups. Do as you please as I will. Millions of people rely on outside sources. Not me.
EDIT: Also I keep none of my work on the computer hard drive. Once I am done with a project it goes into my three back up drives.
I used them shortly to store pictures but at that point I was largely using Google Drive and Photos so I upped my Google Drive storage and ended up just staying with that. It wasn't worth my time or effort to dive deep down in comparing Amazon vs Google for my online photo repository.
Personally I use old hard drives that I have already upgrade from to store those family photos, and keep at least 1 off site (grand parent's place). I know people who relies only on online free storage until one day they forgot and they changed the user agreement, losing them because they forgot (geocities or image shack anyone?), only to remember after their only copy is corrupted. It doesn't hurt to keep a copy online if it is free but if you have 1TB of photos the cost add up pretty fast. I usually just fill up one drive and then leave it at grand parent's place for 3-5 years. 3-5 is the design life for the drive so if you are not actively using it then it should in theory be safe. Don't do that with SSD though, the data retention is only 1 year at room temp unpowered.
Where do you see that? And what about flash drives?
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For those worried about privacy (like me) just encrypt your files prior to uploading them to an online service.
SSD's and flash drives store data with a very small electrical charge. Like a battery, the cell will loose it's charge. Data must be written over the cells to rejuvenate the charge. This doesn't generally happen on a storage drive that gets written and put away.
For me it's not so much about privacy. It's about trust that my data will be there when I need it.
Maybe I missed that, but don't recall ever seeing that bit of information in the manuals for any SSD or flash drive I've bought.
Of course they aren't going to tell you that! You can find more about it and pro's/con's of other long term storage medium by searching on the internet.
page 4 lower left corner chart.
This is the "public info". I cannot share what is not public but this is pretty close to what we know in the industry.
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