Does anyone use or pay for a proper cloud backup service in addition to or instead of easy access cloud drives? Easy access cloud drive is how I would categorize Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud Drive etc.
If so which service do you use?
At the moment I don’t (I backup to my NAS) but think I should probably start. I should probably backup my NAS backup to a cloud backup/archive service.
I pay for BackBlaze which is about $50 a year for unlimited backup for one machine. Works great and I’d say is good value. I’m just trying to move away from stuff stored on a PC altogether but haven’t figured out a solution yet.
I currently pay iCloud for 200 GB Storage but use 6GB due to have a MacBook Pro 2018.
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I also think that we rely on cloud storage too much it grate and all but you can’t backup a Mac with time machine so that why I still use a Weston digital my passport 512 GB SSD external drive.
I also have unlimited google drive storage from my g-suit business email account.
I have the standard google drive 100gb drive deal, I also have a dell server with netapp storage shelf with nearly 90tb of usable space combined with plex and owncloud, im laughing.
I have iCloud storage for my Mac’s and other Apple devices. However my real goto is one drive as I get 1tb with office 365. I also have Google drive as I have an android phone.
And finally I have an AWS account with Amazon, I back up all my photos to glacier storage. Between myself and my wife we’ve nearly 3tb in photos and most other personal storage options seem limited to 1tb.
So I invested in a Synology NAS drive a few months back - largely because I seemed to be hoarding some HDD’s with various important files on, and because I wanted a better way to store and manage all my photos and media than what I currently do.
I pay 6 euros a month for it - but have a daily back up of any changes to my NAS drive - so if anything happens I’ve got the info secured - depending on the amount of data though it can be less.
I do have at the moment a dropbox and iCloud option in play too but I need to rationalise them all a little I think, but right now I have 2TB of storage on the NAS server, all my photos sync to it each night, which then get backed up the next day.
I have a WD MyCloud too and can vouch for how brilliant they are. My MacBook Pro and iMac both do their Time Machine backups to it over wifi and its saved me a few times when I’ve lost a file or an upgrade has gone wrong. I’ve never used it as a cloud storage device to access while I’m on the road as iCloud Drive does everything I need (my Documents and Desktop folders are synced across devices) but it’s nice to know it’s a backup.