Years ago I did the math on how much I was paying to replace external storage and it’s reliable. I decided it was basically a wash to pay for online storage for anything I couldn’t replace by...
Years ago I did the math on how much I was paying to replace external storage and it’s reliable. I decided it was basically a wash to pay for online storage for anything I couldn’t replace by reloading software. There are plenty of options out there depending on your tastes. Personally I just use OneDrive with the quantity of items I have on my PC. It cost me 70 bucks a year and includes the whole Microsoft 365 suite. So that’s mostly documentation and some archive photos. I’m in the Apple ecosystem for most of my photography as well as my spouse and we used shared iCloud storage for photos and miscellaneous files on those devices. I use gaming cloud services for game saves on pc and consoles. One factor I considered highly was that anything that would take out my devices would likely destroy any onsite backups I would have. I just felt more comfortable with the trade offs of offsite/cloud storage. I have recovered my pc and migrated new devices more than once and the only thing really limiting has been the bandwidth.
Years ago I did the math on how much I was paying to replace external storage and it’s reliable. I decided it was basically a wash to pay for online storage for anything I couldn’t replace by reloading software. There are plenty of options out there depending on your tastes. Personally I just use OneDrive with the quantity of items I have on my PC. It cost me 70 bucks a year and includes the whole Microsoft 365 suite. So that’s mostly documentation and some archive photos. I’m in the Apple ecosystem for most of my photography as well as my spouse and we used shared iCloud storage for photos and miscellaneous files on those devices. I use gaming cloud services for game saves on pc and consoles. One factor I considered highly was that anything that would take out my devices would likely destroy any onsite backups I would have. I just felt more comfortable with the trade offs of offsite/cloud storage. I have recovered my pc and migrated new devices more than once and the only thing really limiting has been the bandwidth.