10mbps up will upload about 30GB in 8 hours overnight while you sleep. Most people are not taking 30GB of new photos every day. Or using their Internet connecti

10mbps up will upload about 30GB in 8 hours overnight while you sleep. Most people are not taking 30GB of new photos every day. Or using their Internet connection all day when they are awake either. So cloud storage is totally viable for most people with 10mbps upload speeds. Now, a person might have a big backlog of data. This guy has 7TB of photos. If you start uploading, you’ll get caught up eventually! If you want to get caught up faster, you just need to find a faster pipe and park your computer/HDs on it for a little while. For me, it was a friend with FiOS. For many professionals, it might be their office. The point is, once you’re through the backlog, 10mbps is probably enough to maintain. Again: for most people.