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View Seth's Profile Seth Flag On a pale blue dot 09 Dec 15 3.53pm Send a Private Message to Seth Add Seth as a friend

I have thousands of family pictures on my PC and an external hard drive backup, but want to use off-site cloud storage as an extra backup for the precious pics.

Can anyone recommend a low-cost or free cloud service which has good security and reliability, to store around 117GB of pictures and pretty much nothing else?

Thanks

 


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Do you really care about security if you're just storing pics (unless Mrs Seth is a game girl, of course )

I ought to know more about this, but sadly don't - I have a number of external 1TB drives instead (once you have one, you dump everything onto it then think "but supposing there were a fire and that one gets destroyed" ) so off site storage would seem ideal, as long as it's cheap

Edited by npn (09 Dec 2015 4.13pm)

 

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NickRobinson Flag 09 Dec 15 4.22pm

Flickr is ideal for photos. Loads of storage (1,000 gb), it is free and you can organise the photos make them private or public, create albums etc

Edited by NickRobinson (09 Dec 2015 5.21pm)

 

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View rednblue4eva's Profile rednblue4eva Flag Norwood 09 Dec 15 5.11pm Send a Private Message to rednblue4eva Add rednblue4eva as a friend

If you have BT fibre broadband you get cloud storage for FREE (I think 5gb)

 

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Quote npn at 09 Dec 2015 4.12pm

Do you really care about security if you're just storing pics (unless Mrs Seth is a game girl, of course )

I ought to know more about this, but sadly don't - I have a number of external 1TB drives instead (once you have one, you dump everything onto it then think "but supposing there were a fire and that one gets destroyed" ) so off site storage would seem ideal, as long as it's cheap

Edited by npn (09 Dec 2015 4.13pm)

Security's not my main concern tbh, and those pics of Mrs Seth WON'T be uploaded to the cloud any time soon

I have an external hard drive too with everything on it and regularly backed up, but it's the fire/flood/burglary scenario which is worrying me. 15-odd years of family pics which I'd be devastated to lose means some kind of off-site backup would give me peace of mind

 


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Quote NickRobinson at 09 Dec 2015 4.22pm

Flickr is ideal for photos. Loads of storage (1,000 gb), it is free and you can organise the photos make them private or public, create albums etc

Edited by NickRobinson (09 Dec 2015 5.21pm)


Good shout Nick, I'll give it a butcher's.

 


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Quote rednblue4eva at 09 Dec 2015 5.11pm

If you have BT fibre broadband you get cloud storage for FREE (I think 5gb)


I don't have BT but thanks for the suggestion pal.

 


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Quote Seth at 09 Dec 2015 5.23pm

Quote rednblue4eva at 09 Dec 2015 5.11pm

If you have BT fibre broadband you get cloud storage for FREE (I think 5gb)


I don't have BT but thanks for the suggestion pal.

Hopefully this will point you in the right direction Seth [Link]

 


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View Seth's Profile Seth Flag On a pale blue dot 11 Dec 15 2.47pm Send a Private Message to Seth Add Seth as a friend

Quote Lyons550 at 11 Dec 2015 2.23pm

Quote Seth at 09 Dec 2015 5.23pm

Quote rednblue4eva at 09 Dec 2015 5.11pm

If you have BT fibre broadband you get cloud storage for FREE (I think 5gb)


I don't have BT but thanks for the suggestion pal.

Hopefully this will point you in the right direction Seth [Link]

Thanks mate

 


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View Holmesdale Nick's Profile Holmesdale Nick Flag South Croydon 16 Dec 15 1.51pm Send a Private Message to Holmesdale Nick Add Holmesdale Nick as a friend

I keep getting emails from "The KNOWHOW Cloud" saying my files will be deleted unless I pay them some money.

I don't even know what files they would have, would you just ignore and let them delete? I don't know too much about it.

 


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