Amazon Prime

sliguns · Dec 5, 2016

Just an FYI for anyone who uses Prime...they offer 'Free' Unlimited Cloud Storage for Prime Member Photos (built into your membership fee)...Unlimited Cloud storage for Member Videos for an added $60/Year.

I've been using both for a few months now and it's pretty good. Auto upload option once you are on WiFi is convenient.

I have around 2TB of pics/vids on some external HDs that i've downloaded as well...took a while to complete that upload :eek3:

UnseenUSPCompact · Dec 5, 2016

Convenient and a good business decision to force customers to keep the service. (I doubt you ever cancel if you know you need to retrieve TB's of data from their cloud first)

sliguns · Dec 5, 2016

UnseenUSPCompact said:
Convenient and a good business decision to force customers to keep the service. (I doubt you ever cancel if you know you need to retrieve TB's of data from their cloud first)

that will definitely happen to a lot of people

JeeperCreeper · Dec 5, 2016

sliguns said:
I have around 2TB of pics/vids

Damn dude, That's A LOT of porn...

sliguns · Dec 5, 2016

JeeperCreeper said:
Damn dude, That's A LOT of porn...

I expected the first comment to say something like this lol

AustinBR · Dec 5, 2016

I also use the auto-backup w/ Prime. I'm a huge Amazon fan, so I'll likely always have Prime. Definitely worth the money.

sliguns · Dec 5, 2016

AustinBR said:
I also use the auto-backup w/ Prime. I'm a huge Amazon fan, so I'll likely always have Prime. Definitely worth the money.

I agree

Dave328 · Dec 5, 2016

I just signed up for prime when they had the Grand Tour premiere special of $79. It figures the first movie I tried to stream isn't on the free list. :curse:

DAVE_M · Dec 5, 2016

What advantage does cloud storage have over harddrive storage?

AustinBR · Dec 5, 2016

DAVE_M said:
What advantage does cloud storage have over harddrive storage?

They have backups of their backups. So very small risk of loss.

Also, this backs up the second you take a photo, so if your phone gets destroyed before you have a chance to DL the pictures, you're still good to go.

DAVE_M · Dec 5, 2016

AustinBR said:
They have backups of their backups. So very small risk of loss.

Also, this backs up the second you take a photo, so if your phone gets destroyed before you have a chance to DL the pictures, you're still good to go.

Flickr gives you 1 TB of storage for free with auto-uploading. So, what advantage does Amazon have over that?

AustinBR · Dec 5, 2016

DAVE_M said:
Flickr gives you 1 TB of storage for free with auto-uploading. So, what advantage does Amazon have over that?

I've never heard of Flickr and have heard of Amazon. That's an advantage lol

--Sent from my Galaxy S6

shrxfn · Dec 5, 2016

If you already use Amazon a lot and have prime for shipping, movies, books or any other bundled thing they give you with Prime then unlimited storage is an added bonus. If you don't use Prime then 1TB free may be enough for you but with most pictures now taking up on average of 10-20MB it can get chewed up quicker than you think. Don't even get me started on hard drive failures I have had a few lately with some of my older machines.

On a side note if you use external hard drives to backup data make sure that they do not use hardware encryption. I had the encryption chip burn out on a WD external drive and it rendered all of the data on the drive irretrievable.

My hangup with Cloud storage is that your stuff is only as safe as the most security conscious person at the company. I don't trust Cloud storage companies too much because they are large targets. Not saying that my pictures are classified but I don't like my stuff out there on the Net out of my control.

DAVE_M · Dec 5, 2016

AustinBR said:
I've never heard of Flickr and have heard of Amazon. That's an advantage lol

--Sent from my Galaxy S6

Flickr has been around since 2004. Look it up and you will be amazed.

AustinBR · Dec 5, 2016

DAVE_M said:
Flickr has been around since 2004. Look it up and you will be amazed.

Interesting. Google also gives free unlimited photo backups.

wcweir3 · Dec 5, 2016

I use Dropbox it's on my phone, pad & laptop it auto loads any pictures and I share some files that I store there and it is free.
(you can buy more storage if you need)

sliguns · Dec 5, 2016

Dave328 said:
I just signed up for prime when they had the Grand Tour premiere special of $79. It figures the first movie I tried to stream isn't on the free list.

lol yeah they are a good 2 to 3 steps behind Netflix when it comes to movies Free with Prime (though the Prime Exclusive Shows are starting to ramp up), but there's enough of a selection to where it's decent (though not decent enough to justify Prime, imho).

We use Amazon a lot throughout the year, so shipping costs alone pays for our membership, throw in the movies, music, books, and now Cloud service and we are set for a decently cheap set up. We have a tone of devices as well that are in use so Cloud is helping us out a good bit. Up until early last year I was using external drives and DVDs as my two sources for storage...good grief am I glad that's over with.

For now I'm still storing our digital files on an external hard drive as well since I still have about 2.5 TB of free space left to fill...once that fills up tho, i'm not sure if I'll continue to do that or not.

Let's hope Trump doesn't go full potato on Amazon and that all his tough talk about them during his campaign was just more hot air

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