Online Storage Options?

[ericjkelly]

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!

 

[Steve Miller]

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!

 

[Todd Lemery]

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!

 

[Tony Laubach]

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.

 

[Dan Robinson]

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.

 

[Peter Potvin]

I know I am a bit late to this, but I haven’t been on the forums in over a couple months.

Have you checked out Backblaze B2 Cloud? I’m pretty sure it’s US$5/TB/month for their service, with the first 10GB free. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html