burnieflanders

Re:Ask HN: Google Drive vs iCloud – which is best for personal files/p... on Monday April 08, 2024 @04:49AM (#39967598)

Price isn't a factor (happy to a few hundred bucks a year for safekeeping of files/memories).

The reason I prefer google drive / iCloud is (I think) they have backups so if a truck or a comet hits one of their data centers, my files probably won't be lost.

Whereas I don't think that's true of S3. Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think with AWS/GCP it's up to the user to manage redundancy.

Re:Ask HN: Google Drive vs iCloud – which is best for personal files/p... on Monday April 08, 2024 @02:15AM (#39966729)

I'll pay annually to reduce this risk. For some reason I doubt google would just delete my data if I went into a coma for a year or two, but I can't back that up with a source. It's just a hope.

I'd consider paying 10 years in advance if I could tbh.

Ask HN: Google Drive vs iCloud – which is best for personal files/photos/videos?

Posted by burnieflanders on Monday April 08, 2024 @12:59AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm moving ~20 years of my personal photos, videos, and files from external hard disks to a cloud. Motivation: a damaged/lost/stolen SSD could lose my precious memories forever.I'm an iPhone/mac user (no iCloud for photo/videos, just contacts and a few very small things that makes moving to a new iPhone easier). But I also use Google Drive a lot.I'm from a country with terribly slow upload...

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