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Good online photo storage options?

submitted by AugustineOfHippo2 to AskUpgoat 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 11:33:58 ago (+1/-0)     (AskUpgoat)

Just looking for a good place to store and browse family photos. Any suggestions or experiences? I’ve looked at google, Amazon, Shutterfly, etc.


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[ - ] germ22 2 points 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 11:46:27 ago (+2/-0)

Why do you want to put your photos on some else's computer?

[ - ] Tallest_Skil 2 points 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 12:10:44 ago (+2/-0)

So that your literal personal family information can be stolen by international jewish corporations and used for their profit, of all things.

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 14:13:26 ago (+1/-0)

It's the modern American jewish way of life. The new people are imprinted with jewishness from birth, so this is the way it will be from now on.

[ - ] localsal 1 point 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 12:35:38 ago (+1/-0)

All of those sites are probably open to AI training. Do you want your family to show up as AI models and/or deep fakes?

Get a dozen or so usb drives. These can be handed out or used for backups.

The real answer may depend on the use case - would a password protected personal website be the answer? Or a VPS of some sort?

Anything "safe" will probably require paying for, as the free options are probably selling everything - and probably submitting everything for AI scraping or analysis.

[ - ] CowboyHenk 0 points 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 13:58:57 ago (+0/-0)

I wouldn't trust a flashdrive or flash cards anything besides redundant files for long term storage. They are prone to failures even from resting in your drawer. The next time you plug them in they'll either croak right away, or become read-only, but only if you are lucky.
HDD in USB enclosure is the better way to go, but only the type you have seperate disk and USB enclosure. Greedy bastards from seagate and others have made special disks with USB only interface, something happens to it (say a broken off usb socket) and you are in trouble. 2.5" is more convenient, because it powers off right from the port, but 3.5" can be a lot bigger.
Also, avoid SMR (shingled magnetic recording) disks like fire, go for CMR (conventional magnetic recording). They are slow to write and can loose much data when they loose power while writing.

[ - ] localsal 0 points 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 19:55:16 ago (+0/-0)

I've had usb drives that died after a few uses, but others that have lived, and still alive, for over 10 years. YMMV applies here.

As a use case, I wouldn't count on the usb drives to be long term viable, but if just giving out or doing a computer swap, I would call it way safer than using any online service - especially free.

[ - ] CowboyHenk 0 points 3 weeksApr 6, 2025 02:35:06 ago (+0/-0)

That's the idea. Copy some files, move the flashdrive a bit, copy again, done. If it fails, you get another one. BTW, most flashdrives have terrible write performance. When copying large files they will suddenly stop and wait, from overheating I think. Disks are way more stable in this matter, especially on USB 2.0 when the disk would be always faster, it's always more or less 30MB/s read or write.

[ - ] localsal 0 points 3 weeksApr 6, 2025 13:01:51 ago (+0/-0)

Quality matters in that respect - usb 3 speeds are sometimes flaky with cheap drives, or those drives that do buffering. The new usb4/thunderbolt drives should be even better.

The choices are very dependent on the use case.

[ - ] namefagsrgay 0 points 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 13:07:51 ago (+0/-0)

I usually use something like iDrive. They have very cheap first year rates. Like $3.50 vs $70-100 or whatever it is.

I just re-sign up at the end of the year. I have enough storage to download it all locally, it's just a BACKUP.

[ - ] Trope 0 points 3 weeksApr 5, 2025 17:59:25 ago (+0/-0)

I’m using OneDrive for like 2 bucks a month.