For me, I pay $1 a month for automatic iPhone/photo backups. $12 a year is trivial and beats syncing up my phone every once in a while and creating two backups

For me, I pay $1 a month for automatic iPhone/photo backups. $12 a year is trivial and beats syncing up my phone every once in a while and creating two backups for it. I, however, do use my own HDDs for backing up my computers.