Much as I try and avoid using Google, I stick with them for the free email and unlimited photo storage.
Much as I try and avoid using Google, I stick with them for the free email and unlimited photo storage.
I'm actually quite fearful of the day when Google will end its generous offer... We often see cloud providers struggling to cope with “unlimited” free plans, perhaps we should take all of them with a grain of salt and rely on local backups precisely to avoid the quasi-extortion that comes when the “unlimited cloud” mantra goes downhill.
1)Gmail is free but does have a storage limit.
2) You can have an unlimited # of photos but not at full/original resolution. If you want full/orig you have to pay.
p.s. "...perhaps we should take all of them with a grain of salt..." Do you mean you haven't been doing this already? :)
I've began noticing the issues of large-scale cloud storage with the OneDrive fiasco, so I learned my lessons the hard way over there. But unfortunately too many people remain invested in such ecosystems and have no idea of the risks involved...
Besides the gigabyte price of a harddrive is about 0.02[0], so if google makes a dollar more in advertising it can afford to store quite a bit...
[0] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
I also keep all of all of my processed RAW files on Amazon Prime Photos. I never log into the app though, it's simply just my offsite backup. My NAS automatically syncs to Amazon Photos weekly.
Amazon offers unlimited full resolution photo storage for Prime users...I think I'll move my items there.
We live in a world where most people get twitchy if they haven't looked at their phone for an hour - how is 3 months notice considered so hugely unacceptable in this particular circumstance?
> ... who don't log in/check their email frequently (including their spam folders) or who have technical problems (crap upload speeds, no capacity to download and store gigs of what might be the only existent copies of photos).
This really does sound like a tiny minority of Internet users - sufficient bandwidth and tech savvy to upload > 1000 photos back in the good old days - but insufficient attention, bandwidth, or local storage a decade later to host their own photos.
Just how many people are out there that uploaded to flickr / yahoo and then deleted their local copies of their photos? And how much pandering are they expecting?
"Here's a system I uploaded my most important memories to, but I only look at them every 6 months, and I didn't pay for their storage, but I'm confident that where I dumped them a decade ago will be where they'll stay forever."
I'd be very interested in looking at this research and evidence of correlation between ads and photo data. Can you please cite the reference?
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