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Cloud storage recommendation
nick205 - 26/11/24 at 11:20 AM

Morning all,

Can anyone recommend some cost effective cloud storage?

Photos, documents, music etc.

Currently looking for around 1TB, but idealy needs to be expandable as needs grow.

An Android app to allow up/downloads from phones would be good too.

Thanks

loggyboy - 26/11/24 at 11:42 AM

I use onedrive, fortunately have a business account so gives me 1tb as part of that.

nick205 - 26/11/24 at 11:54 AM

Is the business account personal or through your work?

I have a free personal Google Drive account which gives 15GB, but need more.

Slimy38 - 26/11/24 at 12:29 PM

For sheer 'terabytes per buck' I wasn't able to find anything that was better than an Office 365 subscription, particularly the family one. For £50 a year you get 6 x 1Tb online storage, after that the Office licence is just a cherry on top. Since I needed Office anyway (for myself and my kids) then it worked even better.

The only proviso is that you have to catch Amazon or Argos when they have a sale, for example https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3981360.

nick205 - 26/11/24 at 12:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Slimy38
For sheer 'terabytes per buck' I wasn't able to find anything that was better than an Office 365 subscription, particularly the family one. For £50 a year you get 6 x 1Tb online storage, after that the Office licence is just a cherry on top. Since I needed Office anyway (for myself and my kids) then it worked even better.

The only proviso is that you have to catch Amazon or Argos when they have a sale, for example https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3981360.



Could be an option.
A new laptop is also on the horizon, which will need Office.
One of my kids PCs would also benefit from Office.

Slimy38 - 26/11/24 at 02:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205

Could be an option.
A new laptop is also on the horizon, which will need Office.
One of my kids PCs would also benefit from Office.


Yeah that was pretty much my thought process at the beginning. I was still running older versions of Office that were of 'questionable' origin, it gave me an opportunity to bring everything up to date.

coyoteboy - 28/11/24 at 01:11 PM

Problem with the O365 option is that no one user can have >1Tb and they offer no expansion. I called and chatted and they won't a) combine spare user accounts or b) increase arbitrarily, you have to move to a business account which is something more like 40 a month. I have about 3 Tb of photos to back up somewhere, and I'm having the same dilemma - reckon I'll be using either backblaze or idrive but I've not pulled the trigger yet.

loggyboy - 28/11/24 at 04:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Is the business account personal or through your work?

I have a free personal Google Drive account which gives 15GB, but need more.


Its business, but I have the only access to it, so its good as along as I work here. But TBH even if didnt work here, I would consider subbing to office 365, for £60 a year you get 1TB and the also access to full office suite (outlook, word, excel etc)

MikeR - 30/11/24 at 10:43 PM

A couple of years ago I was running out of backup storage on my phone for pictures. For 20 quid a year I get 100gb from google. Its enough for me.

(nb i can't actually remember the price - this is a guess).

https://one.google.com/about/plans?gad_source=1&g1_landing_page=0

(i had to look, £19 quid a year - they do larger amounts but the price creeps up).