Cloud Service (Help Needed)

[Shunpike]

Hey guys

After an unlucky incident, my old laptop has gone bad and I couldn't save thousands of pictures.All of the pictures and videos stored in that lap top is gone.

Now I want a reliable cloud service for what I have. 20 GB of photos and videos.

Price isn't deal breaker. Ready to pay $100 per year or more if necessary.

What I am looking for is below.

1) Easy, simple upload and download process.
2) User friendly interface.
3) Reliable

What are some suggestions? Again, I am not looking for cheap options. I lost pictures of my babies and I am extremely sensitive now for reliability.

Thanks again for all the support.

 

[iceberg]

dropbox and google drive are both fine and have extentions for you to view your photos on your phone. load app, enter login info, and surf pics. same for your music collection. you can put it up here and then put an app on your phone to see your music directories and listen remotely.

 

[CyberB0b]

You need to add another layer. Get an external hard drive,along with your cloud service. Drive and Dropbox are both fine. Google photos on an android device will automatically sync your pics for you. I use that.

 

[CashMan]

You need to add another layer. Get an external hard drive,along with your cloud service. Drive and Dropbox are both fine. Google photos on an android device will automatically sync your pics for you. I use that.

Any pics of hot chicks?

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Easier just to buy Flash Drives. Make two copies and invest in a Safe. Keep one copy locked away and one in a file. JMO

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

I've heard good things about backblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/

I agree with the suggestions to make a backup to an external disk as well as cloud. You can get a good high capacity drive for around $100.

Also, just because the laptop is bad doesn't mean the pictures are not accessible. Depending on your level of technical ability, you could pull the hard drive from the laptop and put it in an enclosure and connect it to a different computer to read the files. You could also pay a service to do data recovery on that drive for you.

 

[Shunpike]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will do cloud and I will also do flash drive.

I use Apple Phone and Windows PC. I also saw Amazon Cloud for free for Prime users. Shall I just use Amazon?

@Meat-O-Rama

I took my laptop to technical service. They checked it and said I can't pull any pictures out of it. I can send it to you if you want to take a crack at it?

 

[YosemiteSam]

I love Google Drive and Google Photo. All photos I take with my phone automatically sync to the Google Photo cloud service. Google Drive, I just specify a folder on my local hard drive as the Google Drive. Anything I put in there, syncs up to Google Drive cloud storage and is accessable with my phone. Easy breezy.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I love Google Drive and Google Photo. All photos I take with my phone automatically sync to the Google Photo cloud service. Google Drive, I just specify a folder on my local hard drive as the Google Drive. Anything I put in there, syncs up to Google Drive cloud storage and is accessable with my phone. Easy breezy.

Sam,

Do you know a trick to copy your back-up photos from Goggle Photo service back to a local drive in bulk?

 

[YosemiteSam]

Sam,

Do you know a trick to copy your back-up photos from Goggle Photo service back to a local drive in bulk?

Yep.

1. Open Google Drive (https://***NOT-ALLOWED***)
2. Go into settings. (gear on the right side)
3. Click Create Google Photos Folder in Google Drive.
4. Tell Google Drive to sync that folder locally. (you need Google drive application installed on your PC to do this I believe)

Hope that works for you. I haven't actually tried this yet, but I should!

 

[iceberg]

as others have said - can you define "gone bad"? if the hard drive is dead then yea, likely gone - depending. however, if the screen or something else died, you can pull the drive, put it in a USB container and try to pull it up on a working PC and pull the photos off.

 

[CyberB0b]

as others have said - can you define "gone bad"? if the hard drive is dead then yea, likely gone - depending. however, if the screen or something else died, you can pull the drive, put it in a USB container and try to pull it up on a working PC and pull the photos off.

Much easier if you use Linux.

 

[iceberg]

Much easier if you use Linux.

i said "working pc" and didn't specify the OS.

 

[Shunpike]

as others have said - can you define "gone bad"? if the hard drive is dead then yea, likely gone - depending. however, if the screen or something else died, you can pull the drive, put it in a USB container and try to pull it up on a working PC and pull the photos off.

Please don't laugh at me when I say this. I don't even know what a hard looks like. I took it to a computer store and they said this isn't salvagable and can't pull anything from it. Maybe they just blew me off or maybe it isn't working.

 

[iceberg]

Please don't laugh at me when I say this. I don't even know what a hard looks like. I took it to a computer store and they said this isn't salvagable and can't pull anything from it. Maybe they just blew me off or maybe it isn't working.

heh, no need to laugh. if you've never opened up a laptop or pc you wouldn't know. a laptop one may look like a pack of cigs 1 row deep (vs. 2).

what errors are you getting? if you get something about "sector 0 bad" on boot, yea. likely toast. there are recovery places but it ain't cheap. just depends on what the photos are worth. info still on the drive likely but getting to it would be expensive these days.

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will do cloud and I will also do flash drive.

I use Apple Phone and Windows PC. I also saw Amazon Cloud for free for Prime users. Shall I just use Amazon?

@Meat-O-Rama

I took my laptop to technical service. They checked it and said I can't pull any pictures out of it. I can send it to you if you want to take a crack at it?

What service did you take it to? A general computer repair shop? Or people who specialize in data recovery?

I use Amazon S3 storage myself and I love it, but it's not a plug and play solution if you're not technical. Their Prime Storage solution should be pretty good as well, especially if you've already got a prime account. The mac application was pretty crappy though, not sure if the windows application is any better.

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

Also, I second the vote for google photos/drive. Not sure what it costs compared to other services, but I do know it does it's job very simply and very well. Much like Dropbox, except not overpriced.

 

[basstapp]

Dropbox for the win - you can get 40GB free with a Fiverr service or pay $99 and get TB of data a year.

 

[iceberg]

http://www.wikihow.com/Share-Photos-and-Music-With-Dropbox

 

[CyberB0b]

i said "working pc" and didn't specify the OS.

I wasn't arguing with you. I just added to your post.