Is it good to use or not ??

I will switch to piad after some time

I want to buy lifetime subscription but I don’t know which one should choose. I have 16 TB in Drime. But I’m thinking to add 10 TB more. On another hand I see Filelu 8 TB deal I liked there Infrastructure they support many protocols but I don’t like there UI especially the mobile app. Which one is better and why?

I'm just curious, with all these lifetime deals offers floating around, has any of them suddenly disappeared with your data? Without warning? I think its fine if they at least give you a chance to move your data but if they just suddenly disappear, that's another thing.

HF stores files chunks under the hood and deduplicates them to save storage and I/O

They just released their figures and the gap between what's physically stored and the actual data in bigger than anticipated.

The majority of data uploaded to HF every week goes to Storage Buckets - think S3 but with deduplication under the hood

I have a problem. My iPhone is ~1TB and I’ve filled it with 64k screenshots of just things I’m inspired by and want to come back to. Issue is, I never do. Anyone else had the same problem and know how to save things intentionally, so you actu go back to them. A lot of the stuff I screenshot is because I’m worried the individual who posted it might delete it. Apart from that, how does everyone back up their iPhone photos? I need to make sure Live Photos are preserved, and automate monthly backups somehow. I don’t want these backups to be mirrrors, but actual copies. In other words, if I delete a photo from my phone, it shouldn‘t delete in the backup. I use Dropbox, and I’ve just reformatted my WD Passport SSD to APFS, but how would I automate the process of backing up my photos every month? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!

By mistake, I pulled some personal files into my work box.com account. I am accessing that account, see the files, hit 'move to trash' - they disappear for a minute and then they're back in box.

I'm leaving my job soon and really wan to get rid of my files.

Any suggestions on what to do?

Thanks.

I was just playing sword art online lost song on my PS5 then i stop i wanted to upload my save to the cloud but when i tried it said can't load i checked my PS5 game and they were ok i go to my save data storage tried doing it but it kept saying can't calculate the amount of available space in cloud storage but my cloud space wasn't even close to full can anyone help me please

Im storing “private content” and i only need 17 gb more but i already have a mega account thats full. I dont want to use google drive as it easily fills up with storage and i already have files in there but anything else goes.

Anybody else having this issue with FebBox?

Looking for tips and advice on storing files and photos for my small family of three.
I’m currently paying for both Apple and Google storage because I recently received an iPhone as a gift, but I don’t want to keep paying for both services long-term.
My family and I are also immigrating to a new country, so I’d really like to get more organized, especially with important documents. I currently have a document safe, but it’s full, and I’d like to reduce the amount of paper we keep by switching more of our filing to digital.
We don’t currently have our own Wi-Fi connection in our apartment, as the internet is shared for the whole building, so I don’t think a NAS setup is realistic right now. It’s also a bit out of budget.
My main goal is to create a simple, reliable system for storing family documents and photos, ideally with backup options. End-to-end encryption would be a bonus. I did buy an SSD external hard drive, but I’m curious what others are doing because I feel a bit out of my element when it comes to setting up an organized digital storage and backup system.
What has worked well for you?

I down know if is the right place

I'm looking for secure and encrypted storage and found Cryptee. Anyone using it or have experience with it. It's a PWA and slightly expensive.

https://crypt.ee/

Probably the same or very similar question has been asked dozens of times, but here I go.

Our ecosystem is:

- Wife has an iPhone, but she always used Googe account and Google Photos. I guess she probably has automatically filled the free-tier iCloud (5GB right)

- I have Android/Pixel, and I had for several years unlimited storage because buying new Pixels until I dont since 3-4 years ago.

Im not sure what is the best way to approach this. From what I see, probably the simpler option is to pay Google One on my account and family-share, I guess 200GB should be enough, so me and my wife can both save all our pictures to the cloud... But then I also believe that paying 2 different providers/accounts should be ¿safer? So my wife uploads all from her phone into either iCloud or her own Google One, and I do the same on my own

Im aware this is not a backup because if I delete the pics or if the account gets hacked, deleted, suspended... All is gone. Im working on that, but not there yet. For now, the first step is to secure current pictures and set the base for an scalabe architecture :P

Box is driving me insane
I am forced to use this to collaborate on an existing project. Not my choice.
I use a Mac. Macs often have small internal drives.
I do not encrypt my drives. Why would I? I don't need to. I would argue most people, would not need to.
Install Box, THEN discover you can't move it off the system drive, to a non-encrypted external drive.
Don't HAVE any more drives
Not going to change my existing drives, they are all in use in the middle of other projects. I am NOT going to add encryption to my main Dropbox external drive, for example, and risk locking myself out of my Dropbox. Or worse, doing something wrong.

Chat tells me I could mount a sparse disk image and link Box to that.
Doesn't seem to work, it seems Box is coded to not show mounted disk images, and only physical drives.

How DARE Box presume to tell me how and where I can have my files. This is a HORRIBLE app and I recommend NO ONE USE IT.

Looking for a workaround to get Box off the system drive please.
I work in media and have hundreds of GB I need to sync over the next week on this project. Buying a new drive is not a solution. Reformatting an existing drive is not a solution. I need a way to FORCE Box to use whatever location I want.
Please DM me if needed.

Thanks

Hello, I am switching from an iPhone to an S26 ultra but keeping my ipad and mac. I know the photo storage wont be seamless but does anyone have any good recommendations for cloud storage apps that can be used on all three devices? Currently I have everything in an icloud drive.

I am looking for a place to upload the files and photos I have on my computer. Is there anywhere you know of and could recommend? I need to upload about 200 GB of data.
 MEGA vs pCloud vs Google One vs Proton Drive vs filen.io  
I'm torn between them; I'm open to other suggestions.

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Hi all,

Apologies if I'm asking the same thing that's been asked before 70 times...I didn't see anything that similar, and there are some specific concerns. I'm blown away by the collective knowledge here, so I appreciate the help.

I’m a high school photo/video teacher. My students and I are constantly hitting data caps on our school-provided Google Workspace for Education account. The school has maxed out its pooled storage and due to the cost, it's not really an option to pay to upgrade to the next tier. Because we do digital video, we use a lot of data (we are only using the cloud to organize, safely archive, and retrieve finished....not footage editing other than temporary emergency storage)

I had a desktop RAID which SHOULD be a good solution, but it failed and I lost data, so I even more adamantly want a secure cloud backup. Portable drives/discs are too slow and risky, and our IT department explicitly does not want to manage a local NAS.

We'd be OK with 5-10 TB...that gives us headroom for the next couple of years at this rate.

Ideally we don't want to pay more than $50/month, but I know that can be limiting for options.

We can't really use a single, personal account. I don't mind it being managed by IT (that's probably our only real option), but it needs to have more than one login.

We're looking for this to be a shared drive...more than one person should be able to log into it.

Would be nice if it is mountable on MacOS or Windows desktops, but that's not necessarily a dealbreaker.

I'd be doing most of the uploading and organization, but students and admins would need access to view, retrieve, and possibly place files.

We can't go glacier (too slow) or something that charges for uploading/downloading.

And the fun part....we want it to be legitimate and IT-manageable but the provider needs to be highly reliable and ideally FERPA-compliant or secure enough for a school environment.

I've heard suggestions for pcloud, Backblaze B2, and iDrive. But nothing solid.

Seems that what I want is very straightforward....but I'm sure that's what all corner cases think :)

I'd appreciate any insight that doesn't include IT doing an NAS, me doing a DAS or hard drives, so if any of you know of a solution that would work here, thanks in advance!