• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Online Storage Options?

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Hey friends!

After years of chasing I am ending up with a TON of GB's of videos. I am curious what others are doing to backup/store their videos and photos? I have been sending photo's to shutterfly, but need a good option for 1TB+ of videos thats growing every year!
 
I have, for many years, hosted my photography and videos on various paltforms. From Flikr to Smugmug to Dropbox, I have yet to find the ultimate solution. The best though, by far, is Google Photos. You may host your photos and videos, album them easily, tag, then display beautifully with all the handy integration traits you'd expect from Google.
It's a reasonable cost for storage too. Give Google Photos a look!
 
I have, for many years, hosted my photography and videos on various paltforms. From Flikr to Smugmug to Dropbox, I have yet to find the ultimate solution. The best though, by far, is Google Photos. You may host your photos and videos, album them easily, tag, then display beautifully with all the handy integration traits you'd expect from Google.
It's a reasonable cost for storage too. Give Google Photos a look!
Thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out!
 
I have yet to look into online storage for my videos... I have a three-part backup. I use a portable hard drive per season that is my initial backup; then I copy everything onto a typical hard drive which is cloned (3 copies to this point). My extra special videos I burn onto discs and keep in a 90s style disc folder and copy onto SD cards.

So yeah, I am pretty anal LOL But it's pretty easy to keep up assuming you do it regularly as you accumulate more stuff. The initial effort was pretty involved getting caught up, but I've been doing it for a few years now and it's pretty quick to backup as I go now.
 
To echo Tony, my storage needs have always been too big for online, so I've never found that route to be practical. I'm almost maxing out my 5TB drive at this point. I buy external drives in pairs, one is the primary that stays at my desk, the other stays in my car. I sync that once a month or so. I also have drives stored with family and a broker out-of-state, but those don't get synced as often.

The home/car drive pair gives sufficient security from both physical and network threats. I'd be open for an online option, but for 5TB, it's not going to be cheap. For what that would likely cost, you could buy another external drive and keep it at a bank safety deposit box, which is what I did for a while along with my negatives and slides back in the 2000s.
 
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