[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] follow-up question re hard drives and long term storage

[Steve Isenberg]

A service like Carbonite (or Backblaze, which is what I use) backs up your
computer.  For Carbonite apparently it only allows one connected drive.
For Backblaze, there doesn't appear to be a limit to number of connected
drives (I'm currently having BackBlaze back up my computer and 4 connected
external drives (these ranging in size from 2TB to 8TB), and Backblaze has
no backup size limits.

You didn't say how much total space she would need as this may determine
what service or services she would need.

If all she wants is a way to back up all of her pictures to prevent a
catastrophe if a local drive fails, then she could consider a paid cloud
storage option such as Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, and others.

Given that this is a topic of interest and concern to me, I've done some
research and collected this in my Wiki.  Take a look at the information
I've collected (https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=cloud_storage_options).
The information is from December 2019 and thus the sizes and costs may be
different now but this might be a worthwhile place to start.

Regards,
-steve

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 5:46 PM Denise <denise at rcn.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> This is a follow up question re hard drives and long term storage.
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> So my daughter has about 5-7 external hard drives and none are newer…..She
> wants a long term safer solution (like Carbonite) rather than keeping
> everything on these hard drives; as she now knows they will all fail
> eventually.
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> The pics (only pics on all these drives) that are on these drives are on
> no computer at all, just on these hard drives.
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> Given that Carbonite backs up your computer (and word, excel, etc.) and
> these pics are not on a computer or iphone, what’s a good option for her?
> She does not need backup for word, excel or other computer stuff.
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> How should she get all these to transfer to a better and more long term
> solution?
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> With Carbonite you would have to have one computer and only ONE hard drive
> connected; so that might not be the best option.
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> thanks,
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> Denise
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> p.s. we’re still working on taking in the failed drive.
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