Where to store important family videos and photos?

ripplyuk

I have videos on my iPad and they take up a lot of storage. I've also got more on a pocket camcorder and I've photos saved on snapfish and iCloud (which is almost full so I'll have to start paying for storage). I want to move everything to one place but I'm not sure where is best or safest long term.

I'm completely useless with technical things and I only have an iPad. No computer or anything. I was thinking of joining amazon prime as they offer unlimited storage with that and I have a firestick already. Any advice about what is best would be appreciated.

Some of these videos are sentimental and I'd be devastated if I ever lost them. Would it be safer to get them transferred (somehow) onto a disk?

Browntoa

Mine are in multiple places , dvd with copies spread around the family , external hard drive , Google photos and Google drive.

A._Badger

Amazon Prime is dependent on you uploading and upload speeds are usually very much slower than download. Also, Amazon's application is clunky rubbish. If you have a lot of photographs to store you might be surprised how long it takes you.

I would question your plan to upload to a single destination in any case. Online storage is simply storage on someone else's computer and they can have problems, too. I am not an iPad user so I can't advise on how best to store data from that device but whatever you do, I would suggest you have at least two locations, one online if you like and another ideally stored on a reliable storage medium (a hard drive is best) which you own but don't keep at home.

Archergirl

Google photos is free and unlimited, but yes very important things need more than one backup

RumRat

Google photos and Onedrive/dropbox, and an external hard drive.....

DigForVictory

There's a techie saying "if it isn't backed up in 3 separate locations, it isn't backed up properly."

By all means a cloud product (although google photo scores higher than amazon) but also a portable hard drive and maybe even DVDs...

The more you love something, the more copies of it you should have around.

googler

If you put them one place, then if that one place fails/is stolen/goes on fire, they're all lost.

In the old days, I kept my negatives and prints in, at least, separate parts of the house.

Important photos in electronic form need to be on hard drive with backups on hard drive, DVD, CD, or other storage media. Possibly multiples of each. You need a system for them.

Cloud storage is all very well, but if it's only in one place, and that place gets flooded/goes on fire etc., then you're stuffed. If the company providing the storage folds, you're also stuffed.

System

ripplyuk wrote: »

I want to move everything to one place

That is the last thing you ever want to do, even with online storage Keep a copy online on two different services, keep a copy on local storage such as a USB hard drive.

Microsoft do promotions every now and again where you can get up to 140GB of free storage. Any photos uploaded with Google Photos to a Google Drive account don't count towards the limit however you have to accept a slight lowering in image quality not that you'll notice printing even up to A4.

ukcarper

How easy is it to get photos off IPad to a portable hard drive. I personally use a WD mycloud wireless hardrive to store my photos but I wouldn’t rely on only that.

emptybox

ukcarper wrote: »

How easy is it to get photos off IPad to a portable hard drive. I personally use a WD mycloud wireless hardrive to store my photos but I wouldn’t rely on only that.

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-connect-usb-devices-to-ipad-1999862

forgotmyname

After nearly losing photo's some years back, we now store them on at least one PC, with a backup (uncompressed) on a NAS device, copies onto a 3TB external drive and also stored on my own domain.

About as safe as it gets.