Anyone use this service as a backup of photos? I have several terabytes of photos (in RAW format), which is not a huge expense to throw onto Glacier...but if I could just toss them up in an album as a last-resort-yet-free backup...then I'd feel even better about still subscribing to Amazon Prime despite infrequently ordering physical products.
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#92Right now I use backblaze for $5 a month. This covers my photos and videos on OSX. I saw in another comment that backblaze is only one datacenter. If Amazon included video even if it was only 1 TB I would dump backblaze. I may still use the prime photos for my iphone as apple cannot backup the amount of photos I take to their cloud. Transferring them to the iMac for backblaze is a pain. If Prime Photos had a print se…
Why do you have to transfer your photos to the iMac for back blaze? They have an iOS client. [0] [0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/backblaze/id628638330?mt=8
The Backblaze iOS client is for access/retrieval, not for backing up files from the iOS device.
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#93On that note, what's the most convenient way out there if you want to use a cloud service as an external drive to store most of your images in RAW format? Ideally you wouldn't have to keep them all on your local drive, only the ones you're working with. I know S3 would be a fit, but I'm thinking something equally cheap, but with a nicer web interface specific to photography and similar affordable pricing.
Amazon considers Canon, Nikon, and Sony RAW formats, as well as Adobe Digital Negatives, as "photos" in terms of unlimited storage. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...)
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#94The risk of Amazon shutting down your account, even as a Prime member, is too high to justify investment in any of their cloud services or hardware. Even if they don't actually shut down your account and just send you threats based on fictional terms of service that you've never agreed to, as they did to me, I would never trust them with anything sensitive again. I wouldn't be surprised if they start shutting down AW…
Can you elaborate? I'd be curious to hear more. I'm trying to decide between Backblaze B2 and Amazon cloud drive for personal backup and archive.
They haven't actually shut down the account, they only sent a threatening email (see below). This was for around ~$100 worth of merchandise when I easily spend (or used to) $10-20k a year and had a paid Prime membership ($100 / yr). When I replied asking WTF they're talking about because what they refer to is clearly not in their "About Our Returns Policies" or anywhere on their site, their reply was confusing and did not assure me that this was a mistake or apologize. I've been boycotting them ever since because I fear another return will actually shut down my account and I have unfortunately purchased Kindle books.
If this is how they treat they $10-20k per year customers, I'm sure no one will think twice about threatening and shutting down others' accounts (there are plenty of stories all over the Internet about this if you'd like to search). I'm almost sure this is an automated email, of course, but that doesn't change things one bit, as their human representative who responded to my email wasn't much more helpful and tried to downplay the original email without assuring me that this was a mistake and that they would not shut down my account for extremely normal activity. There's absolutely nothing abnormal about any of the returns I had then or at any other time in the past. A lot of their merchandise is just pure shite.
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Hello,
We have noticed that you have returned a large number of your orders. While we expect occasional problems with orders, such large numbers of returns can suggest that customers are unaware of our return policies.
We want to call your attention to our returns policies because repeated misuse can result in the closure of your Amazon account. To learn more about our policies, search “About Our Returns Policies” in the Help section of Amazon.com.
If there is something we can do to help solve any recurring problems you are having with your orders, please reply to this email to reach an Account Specialist.
Sincerely,
Account Specialist
Re: Amazon Prime Photos
#95The risk of Amazon shutting down your account, even as a Prime member, is too high to justify investment in any of their cloud services or hardware. Even if they don't actually shut down your account and just send you threats based on fictional terms of service that you've never agreed to, as they did to me, I would never trust them with anything sensitive again. I wouldn't be surprised if they start shutting down AW…
Why did they threaten to shut down your account?
Please see above comment.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why did they threaten to shut down your account?
Probably doing something that violates TOS or something borderline illegal. I see cases like his all the time on various forums and they seems to be missing some important details...
There's nothing illegal about returning defective products. In fact, there's nothing in the TOS about returning too many products or anything like that.
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#97On that note, what's the most convenient way out there if you want to use a cloud service as an external drive to store most of your images in RAW format? Ideally you wouldn't have to keep them all on your local drive, only the ones you're working with. I know S3 would be a fit, but I'm thinking something equally cheap, but with a nicer web interface specific to photography and similar affordable pricing.
3 backups
2 formats
1 offsite
Local computer has photos you're working with currently, move RAW + JPG to a Synology when you're done, set up a job to sync the synology with Amazon Photos.
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#98Amazon nags me quite a bit and tries to upsale me to Prime on the Amazon website. Every single time I click "check out" and in several other places I get these Prime popovers or full page ads with a very small "No thanks" or "Cancel" link. There are now even normal non-Amazon products that are sold only to Prime members. Is this how Amazon.com cares about loyal 15+ year consumers? I DO NOT WANT PRIME, GOT IT? Not now…
I'm seriously curious why you don't want prime. Do you live in an area where it doesn't benefit you or something? If you are really ordering more than a few items a year for them, it makes total financial sense to get it for the shipping alone.
The movies, photo storage, tv shows, music etc. are just icing on the cake.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
You used business pricing for Box, Dropbox and Microsoft but consumer pricing for Google. Google gives unlimited storage for $120/user/year as part of Apps for Work Unlimited: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782?hl=en Also "offer approximately the same service" is a bit off. Amazon doesn't have any kind of SLA for Cloud Drive and while Box, Microsoft and Google provide SLAs. In addition, while the older compe…
re:GoogleUnlimited, That's really interesting. Are you aware of any downside? Ie, Why a user might choose Google's normal $120/y over Google Apps Unlimited?
Consumer accounts have more complete access to Google products. For example there's currently no way to get a Project Fi number on an Apps for Work account.
Also the business plans are theoretically limited to 1TB per users for organizations with less than 5 users. I'm not sure if that's still the case since I seem to have actual unlimited (2TB use now) with a single user organization.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many home users have managed to saturate their (unusually fast) connections sending/receiving to Amazon Cloud Drive: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/32oniv/so_how_... And it doesn't have Glacier-like restrictions, at least in terms of retrieval delay. Nor does Backblaze. The difference with Backblaze is that it's only replicated within a single datacenter. If anything happens to that DC you're out of lu…
The typical pattern for photo users will be a large amount of upload at the start as they upload their collection, then occasional browsing of photos on the amazon website, which will be mostly smaller thumbnails. Rarely once in awhile users will request large originals. You will have an even smaller amount of people download their entire collection of originals. With these patterns, you can make a system that puts e…
Such a system would be wonderful, particularly if it used Backblaze B2 or Google Nearline instead of Glacier (to get around the hours of delay).
Unfortunately, no such system yet exists and the complexities of dealing with many people's libraries (particularly regarding RAW files) make it more difficult than it seems (I've looked at doing this myself in the past).