I been wanting to store my personal files lately and I thought about cloud storage. I saw google drive offering RM42.90 per month for 2TB but I'm kind of a bit stingy with money because RM42.90 per month is like RM500++ in a year, I feel like I rather use that RM500++ to buy myself a portable HDD or SSD. I feel like google drive is good for work usage where you need to store files for other colleagues to access, what do you guys think? Like in terms of personal use, should I go with cloud still or just buy external drives?

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This post has been edited by soul78: Aug 10 2024, 12:04 AM

Just go with external HDD/SSD to save cost. keep a backup copy in ur pc too. If one if it fails, u always have a backup.

Why you need 2TB for personal?

I 100GB onedrive also struggling to fill-up.

Google drive is not backup. Google can accidentally delete your files. Neither iCloud Drive is a backup.

Cloud is not just for sharing, the benefit of cloud is the redundancy in their infrastructure. Its very unlikely for their storage servers to go down, so your data is much safer with them than any device you own.

External hard disks can fail, the larger the disk, the higher the impact/loss of an external disc. If you want to spend a bit of money upfront, set up a NAS with at least 2 drives to reduce your chances of failure.

Best solution is actually to use microsoft onedrive. M365 comes with 1TB of cloud storage per user. Personal plan is about RM300 and family plan is about RM400. You get access to the microsoft office suite as well, so a pretty good deal. After 1TB the price is expensive.

Depending on your back up purposes, you might also consider just directly storing the data in AWS S3. You can choose the infrequent access tiers like glacier if you don't access the back up data often.

I think all cloud around the same price except the Microsoft bundle plan

i'd personally use external hard drive.

never know when these companies sell your data or own your data, they can change their confusing tnc easily

hard drive rosak then go repair, rm600 or so can do the job.

our lives also filled with such 'needs', add on such costs, this that, then we complain why do we have such little salary.

end of the days, how often we open those photos and videos and watch. once in a blue moon. but we paying so much to keep them well.

one needs to do digital cluttering also.

some ppl take too much live photo I guess

At the same time rm450 a year is a small money to keep all your memories throughout the years. Family to your baby. Both me and wife uses a total of 4xxgb and I'm subscribing to the 2tb plan.

Google photo is amazing it reminds you daily about your memory in the past. It made me stop down a little from my busy schedule to look into memories once captured somewhere in the world.

Unfortunately it's no longer something I can live without.

If you have a dedicated Internet line, flat rate, buy a synology NAS 2 bay. It will be cheaper in the 3rd year onwards.

I've migrated from onedrive enterprise to synology nas. I don't miss any apps synology has both mobile, pc and Mac software.
Synology photos = Google photos
Onedrive software = synology drive app

I am currently using synology ds420+. Now 4th year. I have unifi wired. It connects to a UPS which connects to the NAS which powers on and off automatically. Already completed the 3 2 1 backup setup. 2 users are using the NAS full time.

Synology nas hardware is slightly expensive, but you get lifetime software support. If you think it is quite hard, try synology beestation. Plug and play.

Though synology beestation sold out now.. A lot of IPTA people buying since Microsoft onedrive no more 1 tb, now to 10 GB.


This post has been edited by mystvearn: Aug 10 2024, 08:17 AM

I'm old school. External drives, esp SSD ones, FTW for me.

2TB is a waste.

100GB is more than enough.

Anything larger better keep offline because it will take hours to download when accessing GD over 4/5G or public WiFi.

Mine is 100GB primarily for email and photos. Large files I dumped at OneDrive and only download when needed. Per year I only spent 90 bucks.

Agree with you, Google Photos and FB (my case) really brings back memories in the past. Im still considering moving my photos to OneDrive since the 200GB GDrive is filling up due to the videos I uploaded....

ssd need to power up once in a while
else he unable retain memory

Rm500++, you can buy 2 external hard disk and store 2 copies of the files as backup. When 1 of the drive fail, just buy another to replace.

Quite cheap if 100gb only USD0.40 per month?

Safe or not?

already 2yrs + I'm using.. no complaints

Onedrive so good. It allows me to be braver on installing softwares and do reformat without worry. Just sync and your PC is as good as yesterday.