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Cloud storage do not help you sharing that old photo album with friends spending the night in a cabin far from the closest cell phone coverage. Also, cloud ser
by prmoustache 8mo ago
Cloud storage do not help you sharing that old photo album with friends spending the night in a cabin far from the closest cell phone coverage.
Also, cloud service typically move your older stuff to colder/slower storage which are painfully slow to retrieve whenever you decides to do it. I realized this when browsing some old pictures before closing a google account I had not been using for years except emptying the gmail inbox every few months.
I personally prefer having a local copy of my files and syncthing them to my NAS at home (which is itself backuped in a storage in the cloud).
- jb1991 8mo agoThe iCloud backup built into the iPhone for me seems quite seamless. As I mentioned in another comment, I have several thousand photos and videos that don’t fit on my phone because it’s only a 64 GB device. It’s been this way for many years. But I can still scroll back and see all the photos. And when I click one I view it instantly. I’ve never noticed any lag or any problems associated with the cloud backup. It feels to me exactly the same as if they were local.
- kccqzy 8mo agoFirst that’s not iCloud backup but iCloud Photo Library. Second, I’ve experienced data loss with exactly this feature. I stopped using it in 2021 after using it for six years from 2015.