I'll start my story with a phrase that justifies itself 100%: "If information is not stored in three places, it does not exist." I don’t remember if it was said by one of the greats or if it was a popular saying, but I was repeatedly convinced from my own experience and the experience of my acquaintances in its accuracy.
Consider storage options from cloud services to physical media at home in your nightstand.
I will immediately indicate the stored data: we will not delve into the storage material itself (for some, a photo with a ram from the 90s is more important than the black bookkeeping of Aunt Sveta). Let's summarize the storage of electronic data important for everyone.
Let's start with cloud options
Variants from mobile monsters
Android users are more fortunate than iOS users because Google Photos gives you unlimited storage space for photos / videos. But here is not without a fly in the ointment. In the unlimited version of Google photos, your content is compressed (according to Google, you will not notice the difference), but I am not satisfied that the video I shot with a frequency of 60 frames, the cloud squeezes up to 30 fps. In dynamic scenes it is very striking. And so, yes, the top option.
Owners of iOS with their iCloud set a certain limit and further for money. But don't be upset, there is Yandex Disk with the function of unlimited photo download from your phone. At least some, but a way out. True, at the start they give "as much" 10 GB of space for other files.
What's next. Cloud mail.ru
Who managed to "snatch" freebies on the action, when they were giving away free and forever 1TB - handsome. There are almost no complaints about the cloud. Yes, sometimes users lose content, but there are not an overwhelming number of such complaints, and in general, the cloud functions perfectly. For residents of Ukraine, everything is still ok, only through VPN. For me, this is the top option for owners of a free terabyte. Yes, such a volume is a matter of time and, sooner or later, the place will end, but as a safety net - that's it. Nobody forbids having several of them, which I actually have.
To this day, I am amazed at their shares of unprecedented generosity.
In second place is Mega.nz
They give 50GB of space for free. It's not enough for photo-video, but for text and other things - fire. Yes, there are problems with downloading files and limits, but it's free.
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Position for risky users
There is also unlimited storage from Google in the edu segment. Those. you can use the manuals on w3bsit3-dns.com to catch on to such a cloud. This is a service where Google provides unlimited space for educational institutions. That still enticement. The lifespan and access to a cloud like a hamster. Maybe a year, or maybe 6 months, as I had. Not recommended for permanent use and storage of important files. The funny thing is that after you are denied access, your files are still stored with them and it is not known how long.
For dessert, we have the usual 15GB from gmail. Yes, not enough, but from Google. For lyrics, it is the most. You can also insert Dropbox here, but the free space is even funnier there, like One Drive.
The rest of the shareware are not worth attention, because they clone each other's functionality.
Pros: free, convenient, automated, online access.
Cons: unsafe and at any moment infa can bye-bye, you will have to fork out for paid space.
Moving on to the second point, and people who have something to hide and appreciate. It's about NAS
If your volumes exceed those provided by cloud storage from your "uncle", it's time to start your own.
For me personally, there is nothing more valuable than family multimedia in the digital world. Therefore, the option with a piece of iron by my side is about me.
In terms of setting up, the NAS is friendly for a common man in the street (one familiar company started it without a system administrator). On a NAS, you can both screw up RAID, and extensive capabilities. A kind of server, independent of the big brother.
RAID itself is more for geeks. The level of RAID from 0 to 10 will depend on the level of schizophrenia and financial capabilities. There will already be a user playing with the number of mirrors and other delights.
Pros: high reliability, constant access to files.
Minuses: price, setup is more about RAID.
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Buy regular 2.5 ”hard drives and back up your important files to them once at a certain time. After that, carefully put away in the nightstand / safes / to the mother-in-law at the dacha. This is the simplest option. I usually have 2 "brooms" for such a thing always at work. But there was also an incident. One hard drive fell back (WD) in a year and a half. I took it out every three months to upload a photo / video. And then, one day, taking it out of the bedside table, plugging it in, I heard clicks. We tried to restore it, but having found out the price tag and having a backup, threw it out.
But an acquaintance, having no backup storage, lost his family archive for almost 10 years and the HDD could not be restored. After that incident, my paranoia doubled.
From myself I will add: portable HDDs from Silicon Power (rubberized such) show themselves very well.
Pros:reliability, ease of use.
Cons: no online access to files, waste of money for large volumes.
Total
All of the above options for storing your personal information depend on your financial capabilities and the value of that information.
Personally, I use the option with the cloud and with storage on a portable HDD in the nightstand. Of course, the most reliable and convenient option is NAS + RAID or a paid subscription from Google and similar market monsters.
In terms of storing mobile content, Google photos and Yandex Disk are in favor. For small things, Mega, Dropbox will go. Everything else for donation or buy pieces of iron.
By the way, if we talk about family photos: how many of you are now printing photos on the stream, making albums? Yes, hanging some memorable ones on the wall or in your wallet is good, but keeping all these albums? For my friends photographers do not sit without work and there people translate far from wedding content into paper.
One thing pleases me that there is no need to store films and music. A bunch of online viewing and listening services have appeared. And the modern Internet speed allows you to download content while you go for glasses of beer.
Every year more and more go to the clouds and remote hosting. This is not a trend, but a convenience. When you are not taking a steam bath, you turned off the light, something hung, whether there is enough space or power. Therefore, there are many options for every wallet to make this life more comfortable. The choice is yours, gentlemen!
As always, I'm wondering: which option is closer to you, who uses what? Ready for a lively discussion.
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