Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall
by ChristianBundy on Monday June 22, 2015 @03:26PM
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> Also, get a Flickr account which can host your 1TB of pics for free (money for nothin')... and you wont consume space on your local box with pics.
Just make sure you understand the privacy repercussions of hosting your data on Flickr.
Just realize that to transfer 1TB of data at typical ISP speeds will take many days.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. In Australia this is so important to consider.
Are there any things to know about settings images to 'private' on Flickr?
Photos have lat/lon/timestamp in EXIF. You're uploading a track log to them.
Even though location is embedded in EXIF, you can disable geolocation feature in Flickr's privacy setting, so that it won't be in the photo that is displayed on flickr. But yes, it does keep EXIF info in its database. For those who are paranoid, either run exiftool or imagemagick to strip off all EXIF before uploading.
If Flickr (or their publicly traded overlords Yahoo) decide arbitrarily for whatever reason one day you violated their TOS with an errant nipple or whatever, kiss a decade of professional archives goodbye.
No thanks. My photos live in four places, and two of them are owned by me.
No problem with nipples - Flickr allows full nudity as long as you mark them correctly for search purposes. Nobody said you should keep the only copy of everything you have on Flickr.
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/safety-levels-flickr-sln110...
Safe - Content suitable for a global, public audience.
Moderate - If you're not sure whether your content is suitable for a global, public audience, but you don't think that it needs to be restricted.
Restricted - This is content you probably wouldn't show to your mother, and definitely shouldn't be seen by kids.
Guide - Bare breasts and bottoms are "moderate," but full frontal nudity is "restricted."
You can also try throwing them in an imgur album. Not sure if there is a data limit per account, but I don't think there is. I have several dozen GB of photo on there already.
Problem with imgur is that it compresses the image too much, and the degradation is noticeable. I don't recommend imgur for archival purpose.
I've had a paid imgur account since the day they announced them. In addition to the compression, mass upload and album mgmt is very clunky at best. I stopped attempting to archive many images there years ago...
I should give it a test again though to see if it is better.
The fact that it can take two internal drives (both SSD) is awesome - so having dual 240GB drives allows for plenty of space.
I have a 1TB external that I glacerize my other stuff to.
Also, get a Flickr account which can host your 1TB of pics for free (money for nothin')... and you wont consume space on your local box with pics.