No RAW and only a small number of short 720p video clips so almost all JPEGs.

I have around 60k photos that I would call "treasured", it's quite easy to get to that level if you like photography especially with a DSLR. Family and friends weddings alone can be 1500 each let alone documenting the kids growing up :smiley:

What about RAW photos?

Family videos etc etc

If only that was her only IT support issue! :disappointed:
She's currently confused as to why a scan of a document which is naturally saved as a jpeg needs to be treated as a photo and not a document.

70gb? That's got to be about 16,000+ photos. Are you sure that she simply hasn't figured out how to use 'delete' on her computer? :laughing:

Wow never realised so many options, thank everyone!

Nobody is saying you need to use the full 200GB!
My 80+ year old mother is hardly a pro photographer and doesn't even own an SLR and only shoots JPEGs but she still has about 70GB of photos.

200gb worth???

If you want to backup photos (which don't take up much space), just use Google Drive (approx 4,000 16MP photos) or Microsoft One Drive etc.

photos. Losing all those memories.

What is it that you have that is so "mission critical" than it needs to be stored off site?

hubiC is good it is OVH's take at backup/cloud storage.You start with 25GB, get 5GB per refferal (up to 50GB). If you pay you get 100GB for 1€ per month or 10€ per year. Or you can get 10TB for 5€ per month or 50€ per year.

The only downside I've found is that once you've upgraded your account to pay you CANNOT downgrade.

£15 p/a for 200gb?

Just buy a disk drive you idiots.

Actually, you are right. I think there is a quota on the file size. My photos are backed up ok, but vidoes (bigger than 1gb) are failing. :disappointed:.

​They been close to going out of business in recent years, look at their annual reports, not good reading.

Go on ebay buy a office 365 personal license for less than 30 quid. That's a year of office for one user plus 1tb Onedrive plus Skype time.

For a secure option check out SpiderOak. https://spideroak.com/

@stb30 I have the pro account.. unlimited storage and briefcase which s the best bit.

Use both Dropbox and Onedrive for various things - have tried cheap / free providers in the past and never been impressed. Of the two, Onedrive is the one I'd go for - have an Office 365 subscription that costs £7.99 a month (£96 a year), and for that you get five Office licenses, with each license getting its own 1TB Onedrive. If you can find a couple of people to go in with you then it could be an alternative, plus you get an Office license each :smiley:

Been using this for 4 years it has never skipped a beat. and no. do not work for them.

do you have Amazon Prime? it's unlimited I think during the whole membership, I'm literally backing up 280gb of photos and home videos onto it now.

Can you get an extended warranty for it?

Isn't one drive offer a good deal with 365 student package

Are live drive good?

The service used to provide these backup is Livedrive.

More info here on their service Livedrive

If you can afford the bandwidth to upload on your broadband account then these services are good value for money.

Will these be around in 2-3 years? What happens to your data if they are not?

2 TB deal for £30 pa

This seems a very good deal and they also do a 4 TB deal for £50 pa

4TB deal for £50 pa

what Robertoegg says, decide what you want in terms of availablity, app support, privacy.etc and how much effort you want the provider to make at retaining the data. Places like google.etc prob have redundent backups, smaller providers may not unless you pay for it (Because ultimately it costs money)

there's plenty of articles around about cloud storage services; a lot of it depends on what you want. I recommend spending half an hour doing research. for example, Dropbox is one of the few that offers a windows phone app , Linux support, Blackberry but it costs a bit. Alternatively, security might be your thing. Or privacy - Google use your data quite a lot for example.

I can think of a few cloud storage providers but I think you are going to stuggle to get 200GB for 15/yr.

I think Google is the nearest and probably least likely to fail/go out of business/change drastically - so that's what I'd go for.

I don't know about recently but service wise it's meant to be pretty poor.

A lot of people used to moan about very slow traffic speeds etc.

I would rather go with Google/iCloud etc. There platform is much larger, more reliable, feature rich and less likely to disappear.