I don't use cloud storage, except occasionally when I want to share casual photos with others via Google Drive. There are a number of good, dependable cloud storage vendors available, and they have built-in redundancy and security, which protect your assets. The primary reason I don't use cloud storage myself is because of my internet speed - while it's fine for web use and streaming movies, it just doesn't cut it for uploading massive image files. Instead, I use external hard drives for backups.
I have a couple of the Big Silver Mac Pro desk top computers, each computer has a direct hard drive slot to the mother board, 4 in each so I can store 8 hard drives of what ever size or type I want be it 1 TB or 6 TB each, I use enterprise server grade only.
Each hard drive is formatted to X fat so it can be plugged in and play on any computer PC or Mac lap top or anything that has a USB port, basically they are all like giant USB sticks.
I down load the selected keeper only original files, with in the folder there is another folder with edited files. Back up is easy, I load the files to two different hard drives so I have a back up, its unlikely a pair of hard drives will fail at the same time.
They say what about a Fire, well mate I can tell you the last thing on my mind will be photos'.
What about a break in, who wants to take two out of date Monster Desk tops worth about $250 each.
The most valued thing in my house the mattress I sleep on, its packed with $100 bills LOL.
For a full time professional business its a different story...........
You can buy a little desktop hard drive reader, you can take any hard drive and slot it into the reader like a Disk, instant viewing......
The Mac pros are simply a storage device, if I want to work on some images I simply take a copy and do with what I wish.
Cheap super reliable super simple, I can just pull a drive pop in a new one copy and paste done.
Filing is simple I use the blue folders, Birds are all in bird file with sub files, dogs in a dog file with a sub file etc etc so simple and I am not defendant on systems or software or updates.
I can store up to 24 TB per tower directly slotted onto the mother board...........if a tower dies yet to ever happen, $300 gets you another one where X fat works.
You can use any spare PC tower but I find the mac Pros are bullet proof.
Only an opinion
OZ down Under
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