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On 1TB external USB drive. I gave up on all online services when I moved to new computer. Sure it is not convenient, but I dont have to worry about my relationship to any online service anymore. It is all local, all near.

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What do you plan to do when it breaks down? One of the nicest features of these services is the fact it's backed up very well, usually in multiple copies and locations.

I don't know what @webwanderings does to backup the external drive, but most cloud backup providers give you the option of backing up external drives (in addition to the internal ones).

you might consider storing in amazon s3 ..its highly durable and cheap and wont suffer from local hdd failure. it probably wont be sold in the near future.

you can do the same with Dropbox, and it automatically backs up your photos from plugged-in devices

For the sake of completion, do both. A NAS box with a S3 or Glacier backup routine will do it.

Now, I'm on the cheap side, but I find AWS expensive compared to other backup services like backblaze. Perhaps it's the backup services that are overly cheap, I don't know, but I'd love to have a cheaper service available for backing up from a NAS (backblaze seems to be pain to setup on a NAS). I'd be OK with major inconvenience on retreaval, as long as it's cheap to backup.

> Now, I'm on the cheap side, but I find AWS expensive compared to other backup services like backblaze. Perhaps it's the backup services that are overly cheap, I don't know, but I'd love to have a cheaper service available for backing up from a NAS (backblaze seems to be pain to setup on a NAS). I'd be OK with major inconvenience on retreaval, as long as it's cheap to backup.

Glacier is $10/month for 1TB. For highly durable long-term storage, that is stupid cheap.

For reference, Backblaze is half that price for unlimited data.

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