wykikitoon 28490 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Now then nerds I have two external drives (no not of CT ilk) that I have got a lot of old work stuff backed up on. Do people even bother with external HDD anymore or are they backed up on Google Drive or the like? Similar with old photos. I have photos in several places. Some backed up on Google Drive, some on GoPro cloud that I have and I also have some on Google Photos. I was wondering do I just move them all to Google Photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 6689 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 I use an external hard drive for backing up my laptop and all the Etsy stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 27742 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 (edited) I've got all stuff backed up on Google drive and/or Google photos, ultimately it's the same cloud. It's £2.50 per month for 200 gigs I think, but I'm 2/3 full and the next upgrade is too costly. Don't like having it all on third party storage and have bits and bobs on my phone and various drives, but trying to synch is not possible anymore. And if you archive stuff, realistically you're not seeing that again anyway. My plan has always been to just take a few favourite photos and make movies or albums out of them to keep forever, but can't be arsed to do that even. Miss the days of just a few physical photos in a way, but they're also all in a box in the attic. Edited September 15 by Renton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28490 Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 Aye I've got 2TB with Google because I want to basically put everything in one place rather than carrying a HD with work stuff on. Plus my laptop is getting old and I don't want that to collapse without having photos backed up. I CBA with external HDD. I have one for work and then another for old stuff and I just back them up and never look at them again. But with photos I do scroll through at times just for some nostalgia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 39167 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 You’ve got 2TB storage and it’s not enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 27742 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 1 hour ago, ewerk said: You’ve got 2TB storage and it’s not enough? That's a fuck ton of porn. I've got about 100 Gbs of photos taken over 20 years as I was early digital camera adopter, think it's about 9000 photos which is frankly ridiculous anyway. 2 Tb though? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28490 Posted September 16 Author Share Posted September 16 12 hours ago, ewerk said: You’ve got 2TB storage and it’s not enough? I've not even used 100gb yet 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28490 Posted September 16 Author Share Posted September 16 It's not just photos. I've got a load of work stuff on an external HDD that is 500gb on its own. That's gonna go on there. Well that was my thinking. I'll keep that HDD just in case but any updates I'll add to my Google drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 39167 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 So if you have 2TB with google then what are you actually asking? Yes having everything in one place is the easiest thing depending on your setup. I used iCloud for my phone and iDrive (different company) for all my work stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 27742 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Only issue is potential lock in. Getting that much data off a cloud server will be a massive PITA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 6689 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Anything non work that’s really important is better on a hard drive as you are all approaching that forgetful stage of life when passwords all jumble into one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28490 Posted September 16 Author Share Posted September 16 1 hour ago, ewerk said: So if you have 2TB with google then what are you actually asking? Yes having everything in one place is the easiest thing depending on your setup. I used iCloud for my phone and iDrive (different company) for all my work stuff. Basically if people have all data in one place or have photos in one and then data in another. Personally I'm leaning towards the former. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28490 Posted September 16 Author Share Posted September 16 Well there's no.leaning 😂 I've started last night to put some old backed up photos onto my Google photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42112 Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 External hard drives are notorious for failing @Christmas Tree at least try and have them backed up somewhere else too. As others have alluded to you can get very inexpensive cloud storage from the likes of apple, google and prime. You might even already have it for free with one of those. But even the upgrades for more storage don’t cost much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 6689 Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 6 minutes ago, Alex said: External hard drives are notorious for failing @Christmas Tree at least try and have them backed up somewhere else too. As others have alluded to you can get very inexpensive cloud storage from the likes of apple, google and prime. You might even already have it for free with one of those. But even the upgrades for more storage don’t cost much. Didn’t know that. Thought external was the ultimate back up. Most phone stuff photos is backed up on Apple and all Laptop stuff is on one drive. And really important stuff like passwords is in a notebook in the drawer. I’ve turned into my mam and dad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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