Amazon Photo
Jan 21, 2023 12:34:37 #
markngolf wrote:
Ookla is my speed test too. I just checked it.
DOWNLOAD Mbps
916.33
UPLOAD Mbps
37.54
Notice the upload speed! That is the speed of uploading photos to Amazon. I have approximately 1.6 TB of photos. I did upload them to Amazon. It took over a week. I back them up to two externals and one internal. I would not want to lose them, but quite honestly, if I lost them today, tomorrow would still be a good day.
Mark
DOWNLOAD Mbps
916.33
UPLOAD Mbps
37.54
Notice the upload speed! That is the speed of uploading photos to Amazon. I have approximately 1.6 TB of photos. I did upload them to Amazon. It took over a week. I back them up to two externals and one internal. I would not want to lose them, but quite honestly, if I lost them today, tomorrow would still be a good day.
Mark
How do you get speeds like that? I recently changed services to improve my speeds. I used to get an average of 8 - 10 mbps. Checking with Ookla just now I am at 23.84/5.34. Sometimes the download speed will be 30+ which is the best I've ever gotten.
Jan 21, 2023 12:51:31 #
stanikon wrote:
How do you get speeds like that? I recently changed services to improve my speeds. I used to get an average of 8 - 10 mbps. Checking with Ookla just now I am at 23.84/5.34. Sometimes the download speed will be 30+ which is the best I've ever gotten.
I have Optimum for an ISP. I get 1 gig of internet speed in my package. Approximately $215 per month for Internet, Cable and phone.
Mark
Jan 21, 2023 13:06:50 #
markngolf wrote:
I have Optimum for an ISP. I get 1 gig of internet speed in my package. Approximately $215 per month for Internet, Cable and phone.
Mark
Mark
Thanks. Not available for my address (sigh) as usual.
Jan 21, 2023 13:12:21 #
stanikon wrote:
Thanks. Not available for my address (sigh) as usual.
In my area of NJ, everything is available, including superb pizza and great deli!!!
Sorry it is not in your area. I lived in El Paso 59 - 60'.
Mark
Jan 21, 2023 13:13:52 #
Jan 21, 2023 13:15:01 #
I’ve heard good results with backblaze $60.00 a year unlimited storage. I haven’t got around to that for me yet but I plan to
Jan 21, 2023 15:33:32 #
markngolf wrote:
In my area of NJ, everything is available, including superb pizza and great deli!!!
Sorry it is not in your area. I lived in El Paso 59 - 60'.
Mark
Sorry it is not in your area. I lived in El Paso 59 - 60'.
Mark
We do have some modern conveniences and amenities where I live. For example, my Dad carpeted the bathroom. He liked it so much he ran it on into the house. I won't say we have to pipe in sunshine but we don't get the Grand Ol Oprey until Monday afternoon. The president of the local sports car club drives a '73 Pinto.
Jan 21, 2023 16:14:18 #
First you may have exceeded your upload amount for your provider. You'll know next month when a new billing cycle starts.
Now I may be wrong BUT i believe , once you set up amazon to hold your files. It continually scans for new pix to save to their system. This may be slowing things down..... Why do I think this? I would look thru the pix on Amazon and see pix that I would never have uploaded. Ones that I was going to delete and there they were....So someplace in the background it was pulling up my pix and saving them .
PS I HATED their interface and eventually stopped using it.
Now I may be wrong BUT i believe , once you set up amazon to hold your files. It continually scans for new pix to save to their system. This may be slowing things down..... Why do I think this? I would look thru the pix on Amazon and see pix that I would never have uploaded. Ones that I was going to delete and there they were....So someplace in the background it was pulling up my pix and saving them .
PS I HATED their interface and eventually stopped using it.
Jan 21, 2023 16:19:01 #
gmbrandon
Loc: Tennessee
Festus wrote:
I am an Amazon Prime member for years. So I though... (show quote)
I found similar issues with Amazon photos consuming to many resources even when it had the backup complete. I had to exit the program if I was going to do some other high resource function. I finally just quit using it.
Jan 21, 2023 17:25:48 #
Jan 21, 2023 19:05:43 #
I use and like Amazon photos, but definitely not for backup. I’m pretty sure it downsamples images to save space. Personally I use and recommend external usb hard drives for backup.
I have an Amazon fire tv that I use for streaming and I upload photos and videos so I can display them on my big screen and also to share albums with friends and family to view on their phones and computers.
I have an Amazon fire tv that I use for streaming and I upload photos and videos so I can display them on my big screen and also to share albums with friends and family to view on their phones and computers.
Jan 21, 2023 19:13:40 #
tgreenhaw wrote:
I use and like Amazon photos, but definitely not for backup. I’m pretty sure it down samples images to save space. Personally, I use and recommend external USB hard drives for backup.
I have an Amazon fire tv that I use for streaming and I upload photos and videos so I can display them on my big screen and also to share albums with friends and family to view on their phones and computers.
I have an Amazon fire tv that I use for streaming and I upload photos and videos so I can display them on my big screen and also to share albums with friends and family to view on their phones and computers.
Amazon does not reduce anything. I just experimented with it as your statement was weird.
The devices you use are adaptive, meaning they adapt to the sources, images or other things. These can appear reduced.
When you are dealing with websites that are adapting they are called 'responsive' meaning that the page reorganize itself in order to display the page with slight modifications, according to the device.
Jan 21, 2023 20:00:28 #
delder
Loc: Maryland
CHG_CANON wrote:
I put my files in a Kush cloud and never found them again.
I agree! Computer Club put everything on a yahoo groups cloud ☁️ account then they stopped the service & we lost years of Archives!
Jan 21, 2023 22:35:02 #
OldSchool-WI
Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919
Festus wrote:
I am an Amazon Prime member for years. So I though... (show quote)
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Isn't a "real" archive---only a hard copy print or negative? Everything else is problematic and subject to hope--expectations---and possibility? Why trust any digital to a cloud. Even the name suggest probable failure? But then hard drives fail, also--but less likely if you sort first and store to maybe two terabytes of drives---better held to only 1/2 T. per drive.
My negatives from seventy years ago are just fine and I have a book published and printed over 320 years ago! Fat chance any memory of either you or your photos will be discernible in a fraction of that time---either seventy years or the book of 320?------Good luck with your clouds..--------------(with my connection---and provider---I cannot upload more than 3 condensed JPEGs at a time as attachments. Some days my cable connection refuses to upload even one image! But that is reality of today in rural towns in WI and the Charter cable company---the only provider.)--------------------ew
Jan 21, 2023 22:40:59 #
PHRubin wrote:
worse than all that - the result is a backup of photos all in the same folder. It doesn't keep your folder structure.
Not sure that is true. Keeps all mine.
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