I finally committed to a photo storage

[unicornduke]

I ended up grabbing the paid dropbox. It's $100 a year for a terabyte, which is not that cheap as far as data storage goes. However, I already use dropbox extensively, all my phone photos are autouploaded and all of my important documents are on there. 

So it seems like it makes sense. Plus I don't need to go to amazon directly, although maybe dropbox hosts on there, I don't know. 

Tomorrow morning, I'll start pulling my pictures from the server and uploading them to dropbox along with the ones I've got on my computer currently.  

Comments

[graydon]

Hurrah for offsite storage!

Nice lady at Google killed the RAID-5 storage market about... oh, Gods Below, more than 10 years ago now. They'd done a massive statistical analysis, and the answer was "(at least) three places that have nothing to do with each other". So if you really want to keep this stuff, Dropbox is one of those three places. (Your computer is another one. A backpack drive can be three. Though I'd stick the important documents on a USB key, too.)

[dragonlady7]

We have a RAID array server in our house that runs automatic timed backups. And then I have my photos backed up, mostly, lackadaisically, onto a 1TB portable backup drive, because those things are so cheap. Just-- so cheap.
I am well aware none of this will do me any good if my house burns down. And honestly I should just fill a second hard drive with the things I genuinely care about and leave it either at work or at the farm.