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If you’re willing to trade those potential downsides for free photo backups, then Google Photos may be a good long term backup solution. Face detect will figure out who you’re hanging out with, GPS tags will know where you’ve been during all these years of photo captures, and time/date info might even correlate to your shopping habits, which of course Google would like to know. What was on that drive anyway?Īt the very least, Google will use its robots to learn about you from your photos. They will have all your photos, which means there’s always the likelihood if them leaking or being accessed by a third party company, which may be more prone to hacks than Google, and then before you know it, your photos exist somewhere around the world. Google is a giant and is much more likely to exist in a few decades than a small cloud backup service, or even Dropbox.īut of course, there are trust issues with Google, or with anything free really, so you pay a certain price for free Google Photos. The offer from Google Photos – unlimited photo and video backups for life – makes it an attractive option if you understand the terms and limitations. And what if Dropbox ceases to be around in 20 or more years, or gets bought out? What happens to your photo backups then? Google Photos Backup For 10 years of simply storing your old photos, you’re paying $1200. (Yes, there’s a free option but it caps at 2GB, which is not enough for backing up photos.)

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Plus, it integrates directly with your Mac or PC to automatically backup and sync new photos. Dropbox starts at $10/month for 1 TB of storage.

Or you can shill out a monthly fee to Dropbox or one of the other cloud-based photo backup services, and let someone else worry about maintaining your photo backups. That means one drive at a friend or family member’s house, another in safe, fire-proof storage, and one buried near the tree out back.

Or you could take on the video editor’s rule of keeping your important data on 3 different drives in separate locations. Old, spinning drives at least have some physical burn of your photo data, so you may have better luck for long term backup with something like the WD MyBook (which we’ve used for years). Trust us, we’ve amassed a lot of media over the years, and our older SSD drives and USB sticks are already starting to ghost If gone unused for a couple years, flash memory has a tendency to simply disappear on you – poof, ghosting where there used to be data. But you can’t depend on USB sticks and SSD drives. If you’re like most people, the relief of unlimited digital photos has taken on a whole new type of anxiety: what to do with all your photos?īacking your thousands upon thousands of photos – and probably videos too – feels like a growing pressure as your phone and memory cards get filled up.

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