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I've always told my relatives to get a huge hard drive, backblaze for backup, and stick all their photos on their own computer. If they want to use the cloud f
by bcrosby95 6y ago
I've always told my relatives to get a huge hard drive, backblaze for backup, and stick all their photos on their own computer. If they want to use the cloud for convenience that's fine, but if the service decides to cancel your account you should always have another place with your data.
My wife currently has a 2TB nvme ssd in her Thinkpad laptop. Around 1TB of that is pictures and photos.
- nicoburns 6y agoAfter losing two hard drives in the same week, I now consider cloud backup to be more reliable. I did eventually (a couple of years later) manage to fix one of the drives by freezing it, but for a while I thought I'd lost several years worth of photos. The rule around having data in at least 3 places is definitely a sound one.