Online Image storage - thoughts and solutions?

[funksouljon]

Growing weary of a couple aspects of keeping a local hard drive and not having access to photos/files, esp with multiple sources needing to feed into a single database. Family count of phones and cameras now that the kids have their own phones.

Used photobucket when it was free, but didn't commit to them and when they started charging, I left. But since digital life is expanding, local non-backed up drives are getting tedious.

Anyone have good or bad stories and thoughts on what you are using? OneDrive, iCloud+, GooglePhotos?

I hate the thought of $30 / month for the rest of my life (Apple iCloud Premier), but to the point where Im looking to just push the easy button on some things.

 

[ConvenientParking]

Gotta be careful with photobucket accounts. People find your lingerie photos when you share you mancave photos

 

[The-Dude-Abides]

Not an expert by any means, but I really like Google photos. Integrates pretty seamlessly with everything if you're connected through a Google account. Extra storage is pretty cheap, maybe $20 per year for me for a few hundred GB.

Edit: It's $19.99 per year for 100 extra GB over what you have standard, $29.99 for 200 GB, and $99.99 for 2 TB.

 

[QChawks]

mega

 

[stanzithemanzi12]

Google Photos

 

[millah_22]

I use google drive.

 

[Moral]

I store it all in the on a work server.

 

[millah_22]

I store it all in the on a work server.

Who watches the watchers?

 

[artradley]

OneDrive for everything. I have nothing on my local drive.

 

[Moral]

Who watches the watchers?

Exactly. I'll never suspect myself.

 

[Rifler]

Stop storing your life and just live it...

 

[HROT]

I guess my answer would depend on your current workflow/gaps. Are you just talking phone photos?

OneDrive - Great if you’re also looking for a cloud document archive. Image viewing/browsing/editing could be better

iCloud - great if everyone in family has Apple device and you want to create and share albums. But sometimes requires legwork (ie asking the wife to add the photos she took at the beach to the shared vacation album). Would prob recommend if you also have a Mac and and a digital camera

 

[bhawk24bob]

Stop storing your life on some corporation's hard drive and just live it...

fify

 

[funksouljon]

I guess my answer would depend on your current workflow/gaps. Are you just talking phone photos?

OneDrive - Great if you’re also looking for a cloud document archive. Image viewing/browsing/editing could be better

iCloud - great if everyone in family has Apple device and you want to create and share albums. But sometimes requires legwork (ie asking the wife to add the photos she took at the beach to the shared vacation album). Would prob recommend if you also have a Mac and and a digital camera

"Gaps" - We lost a set of images years ago, based on time period they were taken as the didn't get backed up. Make it easier to collect them all into a single location across multiple devices (iPhones currently) and single digital camera. Push comes to shove, all documents can live on my laptop / external drive. But videos and photos for sure. To date it is all Apples + my digital camera. The whole "can you send me that pic you took?" vs going to the cloud location to fetch. Conducting a backup of local external devices to the new one every so often vs having cloud storage and back up being "worry free".

I though iCloud autosynced no?

 

[funksouljon]

mega

Hadn't heard of it, will look into.

 

[HROT]

"Gaps" - We lost a set of images years ago, based on time period they were taken as the didn't get backed up. Make it easier to collect them all into a single location across multiple devices (iPhones currently) and single digital camera. Push comes to shove, all documents can live on my laptop / external drive. But videos and photos for sure. To date it is all Apples + my digital camera. The whole "can you send me that pic you took?" vs going to the cloud location to fetch. Conducting a backup of local external devices to the new one every so often vs having cloud storage and back up being "worry free".

I though iCloud autosynced no?

Yeah. With the caveat it’d be each individual users iCloud unless you setup a shared library and auto-share.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/118229