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I agree with the notion that cloud storage (Google drive, one drive, Dropbox) are simply too costly to use as your archive for photos and videos. UHD video on m
by perryizgr8 3y ago
I agree with the notion that cloud storage (Google drive, one drive, Dropbox) are simply too costly to use as your archive for photos and videos. UHD video on my phone takes up around 700 MB per minute. A single photo is around 5 MB. In about 3-4 years of normal usage you will blow past the 2 TB max that these services offer.
Then what will you do? Pay even more? It's an endless thing. It's not sustainable if you care about money at all. What you need is a combo of local storage (4 TB drives in RAID) and have a full archive backup in glacier or something.
Costs will be in check, and best of all no recurring cost just to keep your data saved. And you still have a proper backup if need arises.
- shallmn 3y agoSo you will not have recurring costs hosting your own system? No hard drive replacements, upgrades, board replacements, wholesale technology upgrades when different networking or security protocols come along, capacity upgrades, and your time and energy? For most people, paying a small amount per year to place this burden on someone else is money well spent.
- perryizgr8 3y agoI'm assuming that you already have part of the infrastructure at home for other purposes (a network, a gaming PC, a media server, etc.). All that can also utilise the same NAS. I guess if you feel paying for terabytes of Google drive is not much of an expense more power to you. It's certainly fire and forget. I find it too expensive, and irritating to keep paying for all the historical data I've generated. When my RAID is about to reach capacity, I buy a couple of 4 TB drives and that's it. No subscription to worry about.