My "solution" is external hard drives:
1. one-time purchase cost
2. relatively inexpensive
3. not dependent upon the cloud servers. I am not willing to chance a
1-in-a-100-years failure..
Joe
On 1/15/13 9:14 AM, Mark Suazo 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]
<mailto:[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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