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I also have no idea how to organize photos and backups well.

As an engineer, I'm good doing it for enterprise stuff, but it's really challenging for personal stuff.

I don't trust Google products anymore, I got burned too many times when they killed their products. They work, but I just don't want to use them anymore.

I currently have a 100GB OneDrive subscription for $3, so that works for now, but I'm pretty close to the storage limit. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but considering it's integrated with Windows now, I assume it will stick around for long.

The same is probaly true with Apple and iCloud.

I've relocated internationally a dozen times, so a NAS doesn't work for me.

There are also other options for just storage like S3 or Azure storage, but the price seems to be almost the same as OneDrive.

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> I've relocated internationally a dozen times, so a NAS doesn't work for me.

Same here.

I used to use 2x Seagate portable 5TB. Would mirror one to the other every week.

Now I use a Western Digital MyBook 20TB in RAID 1, and backup this weekly to my portable externals using Carbon Copy Cloner for macOS (ideally I would have an identical second one for this).

And run Backblaze for offsite backup.

I avoided a NAS because I prefer the speed of USB3 versus network - super quick to view RAW and video, and for ease of relocation.

I also have a 1TB portable SSD for my Apple Photos syncing iPhone content without filling up my MacBook disk.

The WD MyBook's are a bit dodgy though, there are so many horror stories. They encrypt all data, so if your RAID config is corrupted...which is supposedly stored on the hard disk, then you are screwed. Also, when you tell it to sleep when inactive, whenever you open a file dialog, the laptop freezes for 5/10s while it wakes up. There is also a bug in the utility application that says "can't access drive" which makes you think your drive is broken but it's actually just a software bug. Not running the utility software fixes it. I also think it can cause some unable to sleep issues for macOS. Sometimes it is super loud too, and its quite noisy.

Backblaze B2 is a really good option for remote backups.

I use it to make daily incremental backups of my NAS, but you could replace the NAS by a USB drive.

+1 for Onedrive. I pay usd6 I think for 1 TB with a valid Office365 license. That's a pretty sweet deal. Not a microsoft fan either, however this works well. Tight integration with Linux CLI tools, Android Onedrive app is excellent et cetera.

> Android OneDrive app is excellent

If only they would actually sync files outside the app data dir like they do on desktop.

My online backup recommendation: Backblaze. No fuss, no muss. No limits.

There is a way to download a copy of all iCloud photos as a zip files.

https://privacy.apple.com/account

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