What do you use for photo storage?

[nator]

A friend's HD with all his photos got broken.., years of memories gone etc. I decided its time to backup my photos on the cloud before it happens to my 100gb of images and vids I accumulated during the years.

What do you use?

My requirements are that its a solid company (to stick around for a while and not risking my pics with them)

In addition I'd love to have a way to create galleries of "the best off" (cause seriously going over ALL the material would be fucking impossible - theres just too many). But still want to be able to keep all the raw material just in case.

Support for RAW format.

And privacy controls (decide who can view it)

Recommendations anyone?

 

[cheshire]

Dropbox? SpiderOak? iCloud? GoogleDrive? OneDrive? CloudDrive?

 

[Jameel]

Dedicated server + ownCloud.org

 

[dmnEPC]

Amazon prime just announced unlimited free photo backup

 

[Eldarion]

dropbox is easy to share and free up to 2 gigs

 

[Fatbat]

dropbox is easy to share and free up to 2 gigs

And you get a whole Terrabyte now for 6 bucks a month and all major photo apps can synch to it, so the pictures go straight there as you take them with a smart phone or wifi enabled camera.

As for the OP's friend, most hard drives can be recovered for a couple grand. So if he really wants those pictures back, it can probably be done by a data recovery company.

 

[blank_czech]

Wuala + OneDrive + Tresorit + BitTorrent Sync + My Own External Storage + Google Plus photo storage. I get "unlimited" storage from OneDrive from buying an Office365 subscription. Local storage is relatively cheap, and I also pay for Wuala.

 

[dmnEPC]

Tell your friend to buy a copy of Steve gibsons 'sprinrite' at grc.com. It's less than $50. Let it run for a day or 2 and he can likely recover the data. This is the best program on the market.

 

[contract]

dropbox is easy to share and free up to 2 gigs

I heard you also get 2GB of NSA hard drive space.

SpiderOak seems pretty good though.

 

[capone2009]

+1 for amazon prime. If it stays unlimited this is hard to beat. You probably have prime anyway

 

[adamx12m]

zenfolio

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but why would you EVER upload 100s of MBs of personal photos to any 3rd party company's server?

 

[vgeek]

Dedicated server + ownCloud.org

But instead of a dedicated server, get a Vultr storage series VPS. I think it is $5/month for 160gb of storage, with the option of having a daily backup for like $1/month more.

 

[nator]

Dedicated server + ownCloud.org

I ended up doing this, just instead of dedi I'm using a shared account I own with unlimited space.

Only problem I found with OwnCloud is that it doesn't support raw files.. Other than that its great and really easy to setup

 

[zaweritwich]

I use DropBox to store Photo's

 

[BlueSteele]

Dedicated server + ownCloud.org

This + 1 pro dropbox account my whole team can use. Saves 10-17/account/month.

 

[dark night]

I use picasa...it stores the photos of many things like dropbox, google+ etc...

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

I upload all my personal photos to Facebook, then make sure to post every detail of my life, including photos of every meal I eat. Then as a backup, I upload them to whatever-the-fuck service Apple has going on, just to make sure my personal photos are safe.

I'm mean, come on... really? Maybe I'm paranoid, but it's already public knowledge the NSA downloads millions of images every day, uses facial recognition on them, plus I would imagine landmark / street sign / whatever recognition technology.

 

[mattseh]

I just use mysql_real_escape_string to protect my photos.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

I just use mysql_real_escape_string to protect my photos.

Really dude, getting old.... want an updated copy of the code?