Best Place To Back Up Photos

[237SJ]

I have loads of photos on my laptop (Windows 10) and I don't have them backed up (stupid, I know) Does anyone with experience know the best place to back them up please?

[ToraToraTora]

onedrive.

[Atheist]

If you upload all your private pics to the internet you are helping the AI monster to steal it all and make Musk etc get richer.

[237SJ]

TTT - do I have to pay for Onedrive? Atheist - I don't give a flying F what happens to Elon Musk as long as my photos are backed up

[barry1010]

External SSDs are much cheaper now: fast, large capacity, small, reliable and easy to use. Buy a good brand from a reputable seller.

I use OneDrive for cloud storage, too.

 

[237SJ]

I bought a spare hard drive once and it didn't work which is why I was wondering.  Google photos?

[Hymie]

Onedrive is limited to 5GB for the free version, otherwise you are paying a minimum of £19.99 a year for 100GB.

 

I used to back up important docs/photos etc on DVDs (4.7GB), but now with the falling price of portable hard drives – I have a 2TB (2,000GB) drive for back up purposes.

 

I’d be paying Microsoft over £100 a year for the privilege of that amount storage on Onedrive.  Looking on line, a 2TB portable hard drive now costs of the order of £70.

 

Of course, if my house burns down, I will likely lose all my data – but then that will be the last of my worries.

[barry1010]

You get 5GB free storage with OneDrive. More storage prices here

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/onedrive/online-cloud-storage

Google One starts at £1.59 a month for 100 GB

 

[ToraToraTora]

it's £59 a year for MS365 that includes the OS and all the office + onedrive in up to 5 devices. I do that I can access mt files anywhere on multiple machines. Absolute bargain works a treat.

[ToraToraTora]

* my files

[barry1010]

Seems to be minimum £85 a year now, TTT 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products

[ToraToraTora]

ok well I paid £59 but it's worth 10 times that anyway.

[237SJ]

Thanks for the replies.  I've bought a nifty Nikon Z camera with Z lenses.  In the old days we just printed photos. Much easier now but I don't want to lose the fruits of my labour

[ToraToraTora]

Nikon Z supports Onedrive, you can have the picture saved automatically and access them forever anywhere. No I do not work for MS I'm just a fan of the convenience.,

[Hymie]

I object to paying Microsoft any annual royalty fee for software I’ve bought & paid for; in no way could paying Microsoft an annual fee, be described as a bargain.

 

I’m using a 2007 version of MS Office (with no annual fees) for which I paid less than £20.

[ToraToraTora]

then limp on with all the agro me old china your choice.

[ToraToraTora]

where are your files backed up hymie?

[Hymie]

Yes, being forced to use MS software is one of the banes of my life – if only open-source software had become the industry norm (no one would ever have heard of that company called Microsoft).

[bhg481]

I have about 700GB of photos and I prefer to keep mine on multiple hard discs and SSDs. I do have a couple of free cloud accounts (50GB each on mega.nz) on which I store a copy of just family pictures and documents and give access to all family members; these are photos which contain pictures of family members and documents going back to the 1800s and up to the present day. These will be of interest to others when I am gone; the rest of my photos will be disposable.

[Hymie]

I said, on my 2TB portable drive.

[ToraToraTora]

So if you lost that or it packed up you are screwed.