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Photo storage
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 7:58 pm
by John flightpath
Hello, does anyone use Dropbox for storage of their images. It was suggested to me today, but wondered was it any good.
Many thanks.
John
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
by POL
As a storage platform it's fine.
Before you buy any of their paid plans, do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 5:49 am
by John flightpath
Useful information thank you. Thats a lot of storage too. I don't have prime, but I was considering it as an alternative TV plan and didn't realise you get that little nugget with it.
Cheers
John.
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:09 am
by CookipediaChef
EGVP wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
.. do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
I never knew, and I thought I knew everything.
Thanks for that, great tip!
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:36 am
by Lewis MacRae
I use the Prime Storage as a secondary backup to my RAW files. My primary long term storage is a hard drive and then I have a 'working drive' which is just a buss powered 1 TB hard drive where my last couple of months worth of photos are stored.
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:16 pm
by Bilvo
CookipediaChef wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:09 am
EGVP wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
.. do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
I never knew, and I thought I knew everything.
Thanks for that, great tip!
EGVP wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
.. do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer
free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
It might be included as "a part of your Prime subscription" but that simply means that
you are paying for it 
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:15 am
by C24
EGVP. Thanks for the tip.
I do tend to agree that it is a little like "unlimited free calls", it depends upon how you do your accounting.
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:24 pm
by davem
EGVP wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
As a storage platform it's fine.
Before you buy any of their paid plans, do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
Thanks very much Chris, didn't realise that was one of the perks and as I use it only as a way of getting next day delivery on stuff, I'm perfectly happy to now consider it as FREE storage
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:28 pm
by ChrisCwmbran
I had a quick look at Prime and it appeared that all the photos I uploaded went into a single "pool" and that I couldn't split it by directory?
Re: Photo storage
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:51 pm
by p6025
ChrisCwmbran wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:28 pm
I had a quick look at Prime and it appeared that all the photos I uploaded went into a single "pool" and that I couldn't split it by directory?
You can create, or upload, whatever folder structure you like within amazondrive. if you view from amazon photos, it is a pool of images in a time line, which you can put into 'albums'.
Paul.