Keep one copy of your files on your computer or local hard drives, another copy stored somewhere offsite. The only true backup is a copy of your data stored somewhere else. Here’s the full details, with a guide to back up your photos and videos and other large files in the cloud.
Amazon’s S3 storage comes in eight tiers ranging from $0.025 to $0.002 per GB of storage-a 12.5x disparity that’s the difference between reasonably priced cloud storage and paying $0.50/month to store a one-hour 4k video.Īfter a bit of digging, the cheapest options are either Backblaze B2 or Amazon S3's Glacier Deep Archive-with some caveats. That’s perfect for your writing and standard documents, reasonable enough for your iPhone photos, but both far too small and expensive to back up RAW footage.Įnterprise, developer-focused cloud storage is far more scalable and reasonably priced-and confusing. You’ll spend $9.99/month for 2TB of iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox storage. What’s still not exactly cheap is cloud storage.
At that rate, even 5TB hard drives start sounding small. That’s a good thing, when your average RAW photo today weighs in at 40-80MB, when one gigabyte will only store 3 minutes of standard 4K footage or less than a second of RAW 8K footage. Now, for a third of that price, you can get a 6TB external hard drive or a 1TB SSD.
The first consumer 1TB hard drive cost $399.
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