Amazon Cloud Storage

Balfey1972 · 26-03-2015 08:06PM #1

Seems like a good deal for just the photo storage. $12.99 for the year for all photos including raw files. Also backs up your phone photos.

Or there is a €59.99 for all your computer files

Have download the 3 month free trial to give it a go.

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=viglink20349-20

uck51js9zml2yt · 26-03-2015 08:19PM

free with prime https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/pricing/ref=cd_home_navpricing

It makes the Fire stick (£7) even better with the purchase of prime.:D

intolerant · 26-03-2015 08:55PM

I signed up with Bitcasa a few years back and lost over 1TB of data when they cancelled their plans. They gave two weeks to download everything and shag off! Got some down but not all. The only reason I think this might be a runner is because its Amazon who are somewhat reputable. Here's hoping!

Balfey1972 · 26-03-2015 09:08PM

intolerant wrote: »

I signed up with Bitcasa a few years back and lost over 1TB of data when they cancelled their plans. They gave two weeks to download everything and shag off! Got some down but not all. The only reason I think this might be a runner is because its Amazon who are somewhat reputable. Here's hoping!

Yeah I have used backblaze but agree that this might be a bit more stable long term. plus the current upload speed on Amazon at the moment is a hell of alot better than backblaze ...

Loire · 26-03-2015 09:18PM

Balfey1972 wrote: »

Seems like a good deal for just the photo storage. $12.99 for the year for all photos including raw files. Also backs up your phone photos.

Or there is a €59.99 for all your computer files

Have download the 3 month free trial to give it a go.

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=viglink20349-20

Just signing up for that too - looks great. I presume the photos will upload as is rather than being compressed? I am on Flickr too but this is belt & braces!

Thanks,
Loire.

Ben D Bus · 27-03-2015 01:03AM

Just started a 3 month free trial and currently uploading a folder of 320 NEFs.

I've got about 500Gb of raw files and was about to sign up for One Drive.

This looks very promising. Also, I've just downloaded the Android app and I can view NEF files on my phone - I didn't expect that! OK, just the little embedded jpeg but it's something!

I should probably read the T&Cs before uploading any more

Loire · 27-03-2015 09:59AM

First impressions are good. It's nice and easy the way you can select an entire folder to upload. I've kicked off a 10GB folder this morning. What's also good is that by just hovering over the file names a thumbnail of the image is shown...makes it easy to view photos that you're interested in / wish to download. Haven't played around with links yet though - I like the way in Dropbox you can generate a link for sharing without sharing the folder itself...

Loire.

eoglyn · 27-03-2015 01:11PM

Just a friendly heads up, if you intend to upload everything at once, make sure your unlimited broadband really is unlimited.
I got stung in January with vodafone for going 31gb over the 'fair usage' of 300gb. At €1 per gb over, it was a small kick in the stones.
Next month our unlimited broadband is becoming truly unlimited, i think, so i'll wait til that kicks in before uploading the couple of terrabytes of raw files that i'd like to archive.

lochderg · 27-03-2015 01:28PM

Balfey1972 wrote: »

Seems like a good deal for just the photo storage. $12.99 for the year for all photos including raw files. Also backs up your phone photos.

thanks for that

intolerant · 27-03-2015 05:38PM

Well I've just reached 19.8GB and it says the cloud drive is full, I'm on the three month trial thingy! Hmmmm!

Ben D Bus · 27-03-2015 08:06PM

I thought I signed up for this correctly last night but I seem to only have 5Gb free? I don't see the $12.99 offer anywhere. Did I need to go to amazon.com? I went to amazon.co.uk

intolerant · 28-03-2015 10:05AM

Just figured out that if you zip your folders it won't recognise them as images (duh).. I unzipped the folders and put them up with no hassle. It recognises the zip file as a file for which you have a maximum 5GB of space.

The J Stands for Jay · 29-03-2015 01:46PM

If you have a kindle fire do you get free storage?

Stylesclash07 · 29-03-2015 04:04PM

Im going to ask a stupid question. Do i need anything extra fo rthis to work in ireland

uck51js9zml2yt · 29-03-2015 04:25PM

Stylesclash07 wrote: »

Im going to ask a stupid question. Do i need anything extra fo rthis to work in ireland

You need a computer and internet access.:)

Stylesclash07 · 29-03-2015 04:33PM

Tori Incalculable Diagram wrote: »

You need a computer and internet access.:)

Cool thanks tought i may need to change settings in my pc

Ben D Bus · 29-03-2015 04:36PM

Tori Incalculable Diagram wrote: »

You need a computer and internet access.:)

I'm still limited to 5Gb and can't find any way to get unlimited photos.

Stylesclash07 · 29-03-2015 05:55PM

Ben D Bus wrote: »

I'm still limited to 5Gb and can't find any way to get unlimited photos.

Is this a know problem

Ben D Bus · 29-03-2015 09:16PM

Stylesclash07 wrote: »

Is this a know problem

It's known to both of us

But nobody else seems to be having this problem?

The only way I can get unlimited photos is "free with Prime", which is of course not "free". It's not $11.99 either!

intolerant · 30-03-2015 08:02AM

Ben D Bus, did you follow Dereks link on the first post. Also, did you download the app as suggested? It seems like you went another direction because it was relatively easy to sign up for me and I'm by no means technically proficient.

galljga1 · 30-03-2015 08:14AM

Stylesclash07 wrote: »

Im going to ask a stupid question. Do i need anything extra fo rthis to work in ireland

No such thing as a stupid question if you do not know the answer.

galljga1 · 30-03-2015 08:16AM

May I ask you guys: do you also use your own backups? Photos can be pretty precious, some I would hate to lose.

Balfey1972 · 30-03-2015 08:35AM

I got the 5gb file max message. Signed up for the unlimited 3 months as I had a lot of video clips from over the years of the family.

3 months free and then $59.00 and this is for all files.
If you just want photos just point it to a folder where just you have photos stored. It was backing up my lightroom catalogs, presets etc. of the original folder I pointed it too.

Also I haven't looked into it yet as I was away for the weekend, over 300gb backed up whilst I was away which took nearly over 6 weeks on backblaze, but I am reckoning that it sees .psd files as 'files' and part of the free 5gb limit.

Balfey1972 · 30-03-2015 08:38AM

galljga1 wrote: »

May I ask you guys: do you also use your own backups? Photos can be pretty precious, some I would hate to lose.

Have files backed up on two hard drives, one is a mirror of the other,
Should be enough it one of them fails only problem is if your house gets broken in to and they take laptop or pc with everything you have stored on them. I know that might be extreme thinking but I have seen a number of people where this has happened to them.

PaulieC · 30-03-2015 08:42AM

Balfey1972 wrote: »

I got the 5gb file max message. Signed up for the unlimited 3 months as I had a lot of video clips from over the years of the family.

3 months free and then $59.00 and this is for all files.
If you just want photos just point it to a folder where just you have photos stored. It was backing up my lightroom catalogs, presets etc. of the original folder I pointed it too.

Also I haven't looked into it yet as I was away for the weekend, over 300gb backed up whilst I was away which took nearly over 6 weeks on backblaze, but I am reckoning that it sees .psd files as 'files' and part of the free 5gb limit.

Is that $59 per year or just a once off payment ?

flyingsnail · 30-03-2015 10:57AM

PaulieC wrote: »

Is that $59 per year or just a once off payment ?

59.99 is per year

Ben D Bus · 30-03-2015 11:01AM

intolerant wrote: »

Ben D Bus, did you follow Dereks link on the first post. Also, did you download the app as suggested? It seems like you went another direction because it was relatively easy to sign up for me and I'm by no means technically proficient.

Yes, I followed the link. When I chose the option for unlimited photo storage I still got directed to the Prime signup page.

Alanstrainor · 30-03-2015 11:36AM

The upload client application is pretty crappy too...haven't managed to get much uploaded, but once the teething issues are resolved it should be good! That's a good price for all photos for the year.

PaulieC · 31-03-2015 04:41PM

Just a suggestion - you can buy Microsoft Office 365 for 59.99 per year and get unlimited (yes, truly unlimited, allocated in chunks of 10tb) Onedrive storage. This also allows machine backups too i.e. settings, wallpapers, browser bookmarks etc.

Ben D Bus · 31-03-2015 07:19PM

PaulieC wrote: »

Just a suggestion - you can buy Microsoft Office 365 for 59.99 per year and get unlimited (yes, truly unlimited, allocated in chunks of 10tb) Onedrive storage.

That was my initial plan until I saw the Amazon offer. I might stick with it.

Loire · 02-04-2015 02:39PM

A long (but worthwhile) read for anyone considering / depending on online storage....

Loire.

Amazon Cloud Storage

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