I would say 300GB still seems to be a lot of data for the cloud. S3 quotes 28.50 a month just for the storage with ~5 bucks a month if you do around 50GB up and 50 GB down per month which is probably actually more than you are likely to be doing.
Their glacier product which does not have the same access but could serve for backup costs $3/month for that + 5 bucks a month for 50 GB up and 50 GB down. I sort of expect s3 to be the best option as many of these other services are built on top of them. There are a bunch of projects out there that turn s3 into a cloud storage tool, some free though you are obviously paying s3 for the data you store/transfer. --joshua On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Mark Suazo wrote: > I'd like to find a "cloud" service for images - problem is, I'd got > approximately 300GB of images going back to 2001. Some duplication, but > mostly lots of RAW files. Dropbox wants $500/year. I need a more affordable > solution Any ideas? > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Arlo Barnes <arlo.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I got Dropbox mainly for collaboration (sharing datasets and R files), and > now I use it as the central storage location for all my photos - they go > straight from the card (which is then cleared to make room) to Dropbox > through it's automatic transfer function. I have had no problems, although > the occasional horror story of individual files being lost without a trace > has prompted me to start uploading them to a photoblog. > I use Chrome sync[h] but because the computers I use are generally somewhat > slow (especially with the number of tabs I am in the habit of opening) I > don't often use the extensions that are synchronized. I am not impressed with > the bookmark sync[h], as old folders that have been deleted on one computer > are often restored from another. Then again, I have somewhat given up hope on > keeping track of things I want to investigate with bookmarks anyway, as I > create just too many. To-do lists have supplanted them for the most part; I > still use Chrome's "save this window as a folder-full of bookmarks" function > to save a browsing/work session for a time when my computer is less bogged > down. > For the most part, though, I have been trying to eliminate the need for > backups altogether. As a student with not much budget for purchasing memory, > and one that uses temporarily loaned computers and ones that break after only > a year or two of use, I find it much easier to use online services for most > program and data storage - using Google Docs rather than Word or Open Office, > for instance. It makes collaboration and sharing a lot easier, too - I can > worry less about file formats. To pick another example, instead of using > iTunes or WinAmp or VLC (although I also have the latter for miscellaneous > purposes) with a music library I use Grooveshark. > There are still many things that need to be offline due to the paucity of > Internet access in my house and sometimes at school, but many things can just > be re-found - it is easier for me to re-download my ebooks, and various > programs (Pidgin, GIMP, Inkscape, Notepad++, Chrome of course, a tuner > program, and others including those mentioned above [Dropbox and VLC]) than > to find and transfer them on a jumpdrive or such. However, I noticed I have > also taken increasingly to putting all my files in one place - a folder on > the desktop - rather than using My Documents. I even run programs that do not > need to alter the registry and therefore self-install, such as tkMOO, from > the desktop. With all this centrally located it is easier to pick up and move > shop should I need to. > And now I have a website I can put stuff I don't mind being public in one > place, too. > > This all might be oblique to your question since I am not using the pay > Dropbox, or Dropbox in a big way at all. > > -Arlo James Barnes > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > -- > Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance > in the rain. > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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