Mar. 28th, 2015

johnridley: (me2)
So there are a lot of places offering unlimited online storage for $60 or less per year, I decided to investigate.

I found that apart from photos and video, I really don't need that much storage.

I already have an Amazon Prime membership, and with Prime they give you unlimited photo storage. So I'm testing that out - I have 2012 through 2015 queued up and uploading, a total of about 35 GB, and I have probably another terabyte to upload. Why not, if they're offering. Their photo system seems very very weak though, I don't even see a way to do albums, it's just a big timeline of photos.

But I have so far just done multiple offsite physical backups, since before now doing online backup of all my photos would have been cost prohibitive.

For space for free, MS Onedrive wins, since by just using Bing for a month I get enough free phony baloney internet points to buy 100GB for a year. I currently only have about 10GB in documents and such.

I'd be willing to pay Amazon for their unlimited service ($60) but they don't have versioning as far as I can tell. I consider versioning to be essential.

I played with Mega for a bit, but they don't do versioning either.

The other issue is that Android apps only really support storing to Dropbox and Google Drive (Dropbox support is more common).

For now I think I'm going to settle down on Google Drive (free, I don't need that much space) and Amazon for photo backup.

I may eventually decide to drop the versioning requirement, if it turns out that the Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 backup system versioning is sufficient. I haven't played with it yet.

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