Good morning all, I hope this is ok? I have been in a hiatus for aaaaaages over the storming of all my photos, including my RAW files. I detest Google and Apple even more for the lack of sorting but, I have now discovered Ente! I LOVE it. This is m=not a sales pitch, it's not a scam, I downloaded this, on my phone, now have it on the Mac and everything photo-wise is slowly going in there.
It's totally secure, not open to abuse by the owners like Google etc. so, just letting those of you know, who may benefit from it.
https://ente.io/
It'll probably be blocked anyway
Thanks for the link Scozmos; To be honest I use an external hard drive which has a massive 28TB which I can plug into the computer and drag my files/photos in to it. I have looked at iCloud storage too and have the 99p per month for pc/iPhone back up and photos from iPhone, etc which seems adequate offering 50GB. I looked at both plans for the one you mentioned and iCloud and from what I can see the pricing is cheaper with iCloud although not gone into this too deeply with myself using an external hard drive (Western Digital).
iCloud: United Kingdom3 (GBP)
5GB: free
50GB: £0.99
200GB: £2.99
2TB: £8.99
(higher data plans available).
compared to "Ente.io/"
5 GB. £0/mo
50 GB. £2.49/mo
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Regards, Hazel
Thanks for the response Hazel, I agree on the pricing etc. but, iCloud and Google photos are both open to abuse by those corporations, this is p2p secure, only you and anyone you share with has access, in my mind that's important. Apparently the G company will use "our" photos. I also have two backup drives one has all my RAW files on. it, the other is my working JPGs. I now move them to Ente once I've weeded through or shared.
I've found iCloud hard work to organise (can you?) whereas this allows albums or collections and therefor variable sharing.
I just thought some might be interested
If you have Amazon Prime, unlimited photo storage is free. No idea what they do with them though...
I guess I have Amazon Prime as well I think I once considered using it but I already had Google Photos. I used to use G+ as a sharing platform and loved it but they did away with it. This is probably about my own "sorting out' I guess, attempting to get them all into one place and under my control hah!
Scozmos said:I've found iCloud hard work to organise (can you?)
to be honest, I only use iCloud for backups generally that have photos on them from the iPhone so nothing to organise really, haven't gone into it deeply so not sure how the organiser works.
From my short experience, there isn't one?
Like Hazy, I too use external hd's, though not such a large size. I also detest the greed around big organisations, and even more frustratingly, the increased desire for personal data, which inherents greater security risk.
Another issue I have with online storage, apart from the glossy social media third party data sharing aspects [unless you pay a subscription] that many thrust in your face these days, is reduced file data information, ie not just time and date, but the camera settings, lens settings etc.
I've recently had to replace my smartphone (not yet three years old), not because it's aged, but because the greed of the big organisations has resulted in the forced storage of apps that I NEVER use,and the desire to force users to paying for online storage. The smartphone has plenty of battery life, but the available memory space is lost to numerous apps like FB, Google, IG, the operating system software Android, Apple, Microsoft and then there's the device manufacturers apps, particularly those claiming to make my purchasing easier (cough cough).
That device is now confined to waste, because I DON'T trust the recycling process, not so much from an environmental perspective, but more importantly personal data security. There's a lot of personal data on devices these days. Too much.....
I also keep a backup of each HD, because they don't have an indefinite lifespan, particularly if you undertake a lot of editing, rearranging and deleting of files.
The reason for the smaller drives is down to transfer times and reduced risk of corrupted files during the backup transfers. The aged advice; "don't keep all your eggs in one basket"
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
I am a hard drive fan too. I have a 1 TB SSD C drive, backed up to a 2 TB SSD drive built in, then backed up again to a plug in USB hard drive. I also have another USB hard drive that I back up to now and then for use on my laptop. My laptop is only anout 500GB, so for it to run efficiently, I have very little on the hard drive, I just plug in my USB drive to access most of the files and photos usually on my desktop pc. I would rather avoid the cloud, probably just being a dinosaur, but it works for me.