Re: Which cloud storage?
Cant comment on Cloud storage, though there are plenty of Photo hosting sites out there, Picassaweb, Flickr, etc, not sure if thes are the same as CS.Re: Which cloud storage?
I do use Cloud storage because its convenience, but I have an inherent distrust of storing personal files on someone else's server - see where that got Sony just lately, where someone is hacking their data at will. By all means store data online, but nothing beats also having a backup on a DVD or external hard drive.Re: Which cloud storage?
I'm not well up on these things Kim but while Clouds may be OK I wouldn’t put anything personal or private on any cloud. I think Tachyon’s advice is far safer, all my old photo’s, documents, and family video’s are safely stored on two outside hard drives, each of 500 GB’s, plenty of space left to add more stuff if I wish, and you can carry them around with you anywhere should you wish.Re: Which cloud storage?
With blank DVD's costing pennies there's nothing to prevent you making a weekly backup. It's vital people DO make backups as someone's hard drive died and they asked me if I could salvage the pictures off the drive for them. There were photos on it they hadn't backed up for 5 or 6 years - holidays, birthdays, Christmas, etc., but the drive also had the last pictures taken of their late daughter. If they were unrecoverable they had lost all the keepsakes of her going back years! Luckily they were recoverable, but it could have been a catastrophe.Re: Which cloud storage?
No, just take the drive(s) out and put them in an external drive casing or into another PC, and you can read them that way, usually. If a PC dies it's often just a motherboard component or sometimes just the PSU that has blown and the hard drives are fine.
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