I use https://lyfepedia.com , which I am developing.
Tiny bit of feedback; I feel that the landing page needs to better explain what the site is.
Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#62Google Photos has been my goto for a while now. The search feature is great and I use it frequently. For example, I was recently looking for a blue screen error code I'd taken a picture of months ago, and was able to find it within seconds by searching "monitor". It's really incredibly good, I'd say whatever model is on the backend is probably close to state-of-the-art. I recently hit the free limit, but for ~$3 a mo…
This! I’ve tried every option under the sun at least twice and google photos wins. My current system has been this for the past 2 years or so: 1. Create a family gmail account (ex. house-yourlastname@gmail.com) 2. Install Google Photos on the both you and your spouse’s phone and set the automatic photo upload to upload to the house-yourlastname@gmail.com account. 3. Create a new account on your local home server (ex.…
Any limited to amount of photos/videos you can put into the account with this method?
I have 2 TB+ mainly of kids/family photo/videos for ~15 years.
Right now, it is on a 4TB HDD with backup. Looks for good sharing solutions.
Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#63Gsuite with unlimited data and google photos with original quality enabled. Photos are backed up once a month to aws in lower but still acceptable quality. (Might be changing that as storage costs are starting to get really brutal). Also generate quite a bit of video for a side project of mine and that also goes right to google drive in a team share. Don’t have the space or funds to store those elsewhere. Talking ~7t…
> storage costs are starting to get really brutal ... Talking ~7tb of video and premier pro project files. AWS recently announced Glacier deep-archive at $1/TB-month (standard Glacier being $4/TB-month).
When thinking about AWS Glacier, please calculate the transfer/restore/bandwidth fees in your costs... just saying. I ended up with a crazy cost long time ago for if I wanted to restore from Glacier. I have switched to Backblaze b2 since then for backups.
Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#64I use NextCloud on a home server, and use restic for backups (which are then synced go a few cloud services like BackBlaze or rsync.net).
Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#65Looking through other user's replies, all the above for me. Everywhere I can back up photos I do. iCloud primarily but all the old family photos I have scanned, retouched also are uploaded to Ancestry.com, Facebook.... These are, as I say, family photos (a couple photos are scans from tintypes — so some quite old). There are no privacy issue for me (quite the opposite, I want these shared with far flung relatives). S…
Interesting "seeding" strategy, I like it!
Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#66What long term editable “master” format do you use for videos? Most of mine have become unviewable over the years as video formats changed and support faded away, except some that were edited and the edits exported into crappy mpegs. I can export now into the hopefully longer-lived h.264 but is that reasonable for source files? This is both a container and codec problem which just makes life even more complicated.
Good advice from a smart friend that's been doing this for +30 years: he uses an open source format that has wide adoption. He's continually betting that in the future there will be enough conversion tools for a widely used open source format + is planning on needing to convert every ~10 years.
Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#67I'm in a similar situation re: moving off Google services.
I use Mylio (https://mylio.com/), I think it hits most of your points.
Works great for managing my ~200k images. Syncs between my laptop/desktop/phones and also to Google/Amazon drive with optional encryption.
You can define which size of photos are synced to various devices, so my phones have thumbnails, my laptop has preview size photos, and my server/workstations have full copies.
Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#68Google Photos has been my goto for a while now. The search feature is great and I use it frequently. For example, I was recently looking for a blue screen error code I'd taken a picture of months ago, and was able to find it within seconds by searching "monitor". It's really incredibly good, I'd say whatever model is on the backend is probably close to state-of-the-art. I recently hit the free limit, but for ~$3 a mo…
> outweigh any privacy concerns I might otherwise have.
What about concerns of other people or do you mostly do inanimate objects or selfies?
I suspect there are many people like me who feel coerced into allowing our private life being stored in public clouds by other people without ever being explicitly asked for our consent. Worst, I feel in many situations it isn't easy to modify behavior of others because of the fear of appearing "needlessly fussy" and and because we value relationships with other people more than the abstract, intangible and hard to quantify concept of loss of privacy.
Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#69Why not an external drive for your photos? I have a 1TB external drive dedicated for photos, and a 4TB external drive for Time Machine. My internal disk and the 1TB external disk both get backed up to the Time Machine disk and to Backblaze.
Backblaze supports encryption and I'm pretty sure you can access your backed up files in the cloud too, but I haven't tried that.
Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
#70I use https://lyfepedia.com , which I am developing.
Cant tell if this is supposed to be a social media site or what. No examples, no nothing. Why would anyone sign up without getting a detailed explanation?