hank6595 Loc: Amesbury, MA

I have filled my storage for photos with Picasa. What is
the next area to go to for my overflow. tHANKs

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

If you have Amazon Prime($99 annually), you get free unlimited photo storage. Flickr was providing 1TB for free. There are many cloud services, but I prefer hard drives. You can have one or two at home and another off-site - friend, relative.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

My recommendation would be another, larger, hard drive. While 'cloud' storage is quite popular, most don't think about the bandwidth you'll need from your ISP that will allow you to upload photos to cloud storage. It can take days/weeks for your initial upload. I subscribe to 50Mbps (uplink works at 6Mbps) service from my ISP, and I know it's not fast enough for me to consider cloud storage.

I keep a couple of large (4TB) USB 3.0 external drives available for backup. One of them lives at my office. I bring it home once a week, do the backup and take it back the next morning.

Just this man's way of doing it. Hope you get some ideas you can use for your situation. Good luck.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

If you wind up paying for off-site backup, consider Carbonite.

Jerryrigged Loc: Modesto, CA, USA

I keep all my originals on a local raid array (6TB) backed up to my network (15 TB). But I also use Flickr to upload my fully edited finished projects. With 1TB of online storage, and the ability to provide private links, it works very well!

ralphc4176 Loc: Conyers, GA

I don't trust offsite storage for anything, period, for reasons I won't enumerate. For storing photos, a large, external, USB or eSATA hard drive (if you have an eSATA port on your computer) can save many images. If you have a DVD burner, you can store over 4 GB of images on one DVD-R. If you have a Blu-Ray burner (they are relatively cheap now), you can store 25 GB on one BD-R disc. If you start storing on discs, my experience has been that the single-layer discs are a reliable means of long-term storage, but I've had troubles with dual-layer DVDs and BD-R DLs. Do not buy the erasable ones--they're not made for long-term storage.

Bmarsh Loc: Bellaire, MI

For less than $100 you can buy a 2TB Sata drive and an external USB 'dock' for the drive. I use two of the drives and alternate, keeping one drive in a safe we have. Much cheaper and easier/faster than using remote/cloud storage.

Joecosentino Loc: Whitesboro, New York

I have amazon and crash plan for off site I use time machine for uno site back up I also have 2 4TB external drives with all my photos every year I burn the real keepers to a Dvd.


I also have smug mug for one of my sites and they have unlimited storage too,so I have about 30,000 photos stored there those are mostly client files.

Bmarsh Loc: Bellaire, MI

Not sure I would trust those DVD's... They do degrade over time...

http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/temp-opmedia-faq.html

Kuzano

One Caveat with Cloud Storage. These are simply business, subject the the same pitfalls of any business. I learned a surprising fact about web sites a few years ago..

They go BROKE!! and they can drop out of site.

So far, I have lost images to a closed web site, and just a few years ago, a web site that had become popular providing storage to photographers and marketing to professional photogs went out of biz... No, I don't remember the name, so in info is suspect. I do recall reading that data was lost.

However, at no time did I, or have I ever, passed the responsibility for the security of my data to the cloud, even before it was called the cloud

Nothing goes offsite regarding my data without two complete sets of my backups on two different external hard drives. My working files reside on my main computer, in a third location on a second internal hard drive.

CLOUD LAST! after I am positive I own and secure all my data repeatedly.

Do a Google search and read the few pages called the Tao Of Backup. Funny, complex and true.

mjp

I love Smugmug for sharing and backup unlimited storage for $60/ year. Additional external and drives don't help if your house burns down or is hit
By a tornado. SmugMug doesn't take raw files so I save full size JPEGs. I'm considering their Amazon Vault or Google for raw file backups.

Jim