Google+ has free unlimited storage of images but only at 2048 px. You can
pay for >5GB of images at greater resolution. Android g+ has an automatic
picture upload feature.

--Doug


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Mark Suazo <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to find a "cloud" service for images - problem is, I'd got
> approximately 300GB of images going back to 2001. Some duplication, but
> mostly lots of RAW files. Dropbox wants $500/year. I need a more affordable
> solution  Any ideas?
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Arlo Barnes <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I got Dropbox mainly for collaboration (sharing datasets and R files),
>> and now I use it as the central storage location for all my photos - they
>> go straight from the card (which is then cleared to make room) to Dropbox
>> through it's automatic transfer function. I have had no problems, although
>> the occasional horror story of individual files being lost without a trace
>> has prompted me to start uploading them to a photoblog.
>> I use Chrome sync[h] but because the computers I use are generally
>> somewhat slow (especially with the number of tabs I am in the habit of
>> opening) I don't often use the extensions that are synchronized. I am not
>> impressed with the bookmark sync[h], as old folders that have been deleted
>> on one computer are often restored from another. Then again, I have
>> somewhat given up hope on keeping track of things I want to investigate
>> with bookmarks anyway, as I create just too many. To-do lists have
>> supplanted them for the most part; I still use Chrome's "save this window
>> as a folder-full of bookmarks" function to save a browsing/work session for
>> a time when my computer is less bogged down.
>> For the most part, though, I have been trying to eliminate the need for
>> backups altogether. As a student with not much budget for purchasing
>> memory, and one that uses temporarily loaned computers and ones that break
>> after only a year or two of use, I find it much easier to use online
>> services for most program and data storage - using Google Docs rather than
>> Word or Open Office, for instance. It makes collaboration and sharing a lot
>> easier, too - I can worry less about file formats. To pick another example,
>> instead of using iTunes or WinAmp or VLC (although I also have the latter
>> for miscellaneous purposes) with a music library I use Grooveshark.
>> There are still many things that need to be offline due to the paucity of
>> Internet access in my house and sometimes at school, but many things can
>> just be re-found - it is easier for me to re-download my ebooks, and
>> various programs (Pidgin, GIMP, Inkscape, Notepad++, Chrome of course, a
>> tuner program, and others including those mentioned above [Dropbox and
>> VLC]) than to find and transfer them on a jumpdrive or such. However, I
>> noticed I have also taken increasingly to putting all my files in one place
>> - a folder on the desktop - rather than using My Documents. I even run
>> programs that do not need to alter the registry and therefore self-install,
>> such as tkMOO, from the desktop. With all this centrally located it is
>> easier to pick up and move shop should I need to.
>> And now I have a website I can put stuff I don't mind being public in one
>> place, too.
>>
>> This all might be oblique to your question since I am not using the pay
>> Dropbox, or Dropbox in a big way at all.
>>
>> -Arlo James Barnes
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