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#169825 27-Mar-2015 09:03

Unlimited Photos

What Can You Do

Save your most cherished photos of friends and family with this unlimited photo storage plan. Upload pics from your mobile, PC, tablet or Fire device and store them all securely on Cloud Drive, where you can easily access them from any device.

+5 GB to Store Videos and Files

As part of the Unlimited Photos plan, you'll also get 5 GB of space free to store non-photo files (like videos).

$11.99 a year!

Unlimited Everything

What Can You Do

If you have more than photos that you need to keep safe and secure, the Unlimited Everything plan is perfect for you.

Store an unlimited number of your family photos
Keep videos of friends and family safe and secure
Store an unlimited number of files and documents
Uploading is easy, and access is just a click away from almost any device

for $59.99 a year!

Looks like I found my future photo storage!

anyone tried yet?

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#1268829 27-Mar-2015 09:05

I am currently using Amazon Glacier for my home server backups - would be keen on giving this a go.

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#1268836 27-Mar-2015 09:17

I like Amazon, and I trust their systems, security, and architecture - and I know a fair bit about it. Heck the US defense community uses it, albeit in a private region. I would use this as my first choice if I wanted unlimited backup.

I wonder if they offer file versioning - this would deal with corruption of files being mirrored to the backup. I know S3 supports versioning, don't think glacier does, and I would think they might not bother for consumer level backup - but I hope they do. That'd be the clincher for me.

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#1268845 27-Mar-2015 09:31

with 200/200 fibre or 1000/500 (those lucky people) it would make perfect sense

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#1268854 27-Mar-2015 09:42

Flickr gives you 1TB for free (though that's obviously not for ordinary files). Don't use it myself, so don't know about how private you could make them, but still.....

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#1268860 27-Mar-2015 09:54

rb99: Flickr gives you 1TB for free (though that's obviously not for ordinary files). Don't use it myself, so don't know about how private you could make them, but still.....

Yes you can make them private by default - and the IOS apps (not sure about android) allow auto backup. There's tools written that will auto backup your computer to flickr also.

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#1268863 27-Mar-2015 10:03

davidcole:
rb99: Flickr gives you 1TB for free (though that's obviously not for ordinary files). Don't use it myself, so don't know about how private you could make them, but still.....

Yes you can make them private by default - and the IOS apps (not sure about android) allow auto backup. There's tools written that will auto backup your computer to flickr also.

Sounds pretty useful actually - have photos backed up already but not off site. I really should sort through them first though, and I never seem to get round to it - there's quite a lot and how many pictures do we really need of the midgets playing soccer / netball / more soccer....

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#1268880 27-Mar-2015 10:23

I hope Dropbox can offer same competitive offering soon.

Sticking to Dropbox for now.

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#1268919 27-Mar-2015 11:01

rb99:
davidcole:
rb99: Flickr gives you 1TB for free (though that's obviously not for ordinary files). Don't use it myself, so don't know about how private you could make them, but still.....

Yes you can make them private by default - and the IOS apps (not sure about android) allow auto backup. There's tools written that will auto backup your computer to flickr also.

Sounds pretty useful actually - have photos backed up already but not off site. I really should sort through them first though, and I never seem to get round to it - there's quite a lot and how many pictures do we really need of the midgets playing soccer / netball / more soccer....

You need 79gb worth if I'm anything to go by... I push all mine into crashplan though. Since I'm an active flickr user - I'd probably set up a new account for a private backup. So I don't muddy my regular photostream.

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#1268926 27-Mar-2015 11:11

The main problem I have with Amazon's service is while the storage is unlimited there's an individual file size limit of 2GB. I've got lots of home videos I'd like to backup (which I'm currently using Crashplan for) and I don't want to have to go through the hassle of splitting them up before uploading.

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#1268933 27-Mar-2015 11:19

rb99:
davidcole:
rb99: Flickr gives you 1TB for free (though that's obviously not for ordinary files). Don't use it myself, so don't know about how private you could make them, but still.....

Yes you can make them private by default - and the IOS apps (not sure about android) allow auto backup. There's tools written that will auto backup your computer to flickr also.

Sounds pretty useful actually - have photos backed up already but not off site. I really should sort through them first though, and I never seem to get round to it - there's quite a lot and how many pictures do we really need of the midgets playing soccer / netball / more soccer....

I understand one of the problems with Flickr - generous though that 1TB is - is that it strips out photos' metadata. This is why I've elected not to use it as a photo 'back-up' tool, but rather solely as a tool for sharing photos (my family has an account we all use and access).

This is why the back-up or other cloud solutions offer a better option for those who want to retain the photos in their entireity (metadata and all). I was using Dropbox for this purpose, but wanting to back up all my photos and videos meant I'd need to pay a relatively high cost for additional data over the 'free' amount (Dropbox is not that competitive anymore). So I've swapped the encryption of Dropbox for the cheapness of OneDrive - doesn't seem like there's an ability to have everything I want! (cheap, secure/encrypted, auto-backup from all devices, retain all metadata, store all forms of files including video and photos, online viewing options...).

Amazon's offer of limiting video would put me off, as I'd rather have a single place to store both video and photos, and preferably all my backed up files.

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#1268982 27-Mar-2015 12:11

is there an automatic sync app/program for windows 7 and 8.1?

the one amazon offers is just a drag and drop app from the looks

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#1268988 27-Mar-2015 12:21

nakedmolerat: I hope Dropbox can offer same competitive offering soon.

Sticking to Dropbox for now.

Likewise. However this is a good sign of an ever increasing trend of everything heading to the cloud at cheap, commodity-level pricing. Most of us can remember doing backups to DVDs (and floppies or tapes if you really want to go back) and then to USB hard drives. And now cloud storage is making so easy and cheap to do backups, data plans notwithstanding. Great news for the consumer.

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#1273082 29-Mar-2015 22:00

anyone having upload speed issues with this?

I have a 50/10mbps VDSL connection and im getting a constant 2.4mbps upload speed, on the odd occasion it might go up to 4mbps. so my 150gb of photo backups is going to take over a week at this stage

Its rather frustrating. as my one-drive will sit at 10mbps quiet happily when its uploading, so its got nothing to do with my internet connection.

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#1273145 30-Mar-2015 07:22

Jase2985: anyone having upload speed issues with this?

I have a 50/10mbps VDSL connection and im getting a constant 2.4mbps upload speed, on the odd occasion it might go up to 4mbps. so my 150gb of photo backups is going to take over a week at this stage

Its rather frustrating. as my one-drive will sit at 10mbps quiet happily when its uploading, so its got nothing to do with my internet connection.

I can tell you one thing, Amazon has plenty of bandwidth. 2.4Mbps is pretty good if it's going to a US data center, on a single upload thread. Yes online backups will take a long time to upload, that's their downside. I was hoping Amazon was using all their data centers, Sydney would reduce latency and increase speed. Can anyone check the endpoint?

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#1273169 30-Mar-2015 08:39

I can't access the unlimited plan - I get 5GB free, but when I try to sign up for a trial of the new plan, I get redirected to the .com.au site, which doesn't offer the unlimited photo storage. DNS redirectors don't seem to help with this. I read elsewhere that the aussie plans will be upgraded this week. Has anyone here in NZ managed to get the unlimited plan yet?

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