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.

For backup or sync like google drive/onedrive?

I'm old school too and would go for a couple of 2TB SSD drives, Transcend, WD or Sandisk.
Quite affordable these days and pretty fast.

Personal files just stick to traditional NAS/HDD setup.

Cloud are for critical files that need the nine nines redundancy.

if poor buy hdd

if want security go for cloud

One drive it's much adorable but it doesn't have googles photo capability. I'm still waiting.

Yes, but I back up all my important data (especially patient data) daily anyway.

Syncing also means if you accidentally delete your file, the backup will be deleted too right?

For starters, the cloud back up should not be your only back up. So don't rely on it 100%

If you scared company sell your data, just make sure its encrypted before storage.

For 2TB, can go up to 2k depending on the level of the problem. RM600 is only for problem like partition failure. If other problem like disk damage, head damage, etc. The cost is higher.

External SSDs are good if you plug them in often, even if they hit their write threshold you should still be able to read from it. However as a long term back up, they are a very bad solution. If you keep an external SSD unplugged for a long time, the loss of charge over time will lead to data corruption. SSDs are essentially RAM, they have mechanisms to hold the charge longer, but its not indefinite. SLC based ssds can retain data longer (~10 years), but MLC/QLC might only have a span of 1-2 years, your mileage will vary.

You have the means to do a good back up strategy, so my advice is you do a simple set up.

[pc/laptop/external ssd] ---> [NAS (e.g. Synology)] ----> [Cloud backup]

For your NAS, get a 2-4 bay and make sure its mirrored. You'll only have 1/2 capacity of your drives but you will be very resilient against hardware failures. Any drive fail, you can just buy a new one to plug back in to rebuild.

Then for cloud backup, go with a service like backblaze.com which is 6USD/month/TB.

There are a lot of cheap shared cloud service on taobao you just need to look. The seller buy family pack and lease out. Costs like rm100 for 2tb a year.
Downside is you take the risk it ends before 1 year is up la.
So far I used 1 year and renewed already.

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Anyone has this problem with Googledrive that when you upload new file or update new file, it won't sync on the spot and when you access the file from other device, it is still the old file until certain hour or day.

I use it for backups... not syncs...

connect their S3 storage using mountainduck if your on windows..

for mobile i'm using BucketAnywhere

Do they have their own app for Windows and Mobile?

Can also backup all photos and videos in phone gallery like google photo?

maybe now they might have for mobile...

you can backup anything from your phone to the storage. of course it's not sync... it's manually you select what you want to copy over to the storage.

Yes. To go around this, my most important files would also be backed on GDrive. OneDrive usually for work files that's always updated.

One Drive = what I consider important such as work, personal etc.

GDrive = Files in one Drive that is important to have more softcopy backup

Buy new PC hardware and if also need to change SSD and everything, I would just login my windows account and sync it on the internet. Then I would have my basic files and personalization to start working immediately after syncing. Apps kena install sendiri lah.

Edit: I'm using Windows 11

This post has been edited by YamiBear: Aug 10 2024, 03:27 PM

Once selected, need to always do manual backup or it will auto backup?

G Drive since nowadays android phone no longer support microsd.
Windows laptop install GDrive app to sync.
200gb sub.

Just need to check last sync time to time.

Depends on how often you access upload your personal files. If once in a while then better of with cloud service as like other ktards said, external drive may fail & you will need 2 drives to be on the safe side.

Personally, I prefer cloud storage & as long you have decent stable Internet connection. Then u are ok, but mine is only 100gb basic package, so I can understand your reluctant to spend rm500 annually.

you dont need to guess

they DO use your data, not necessarily sell it, but use it to train AI

and meta is the worse, one of their product if you want to delete your data , there is a clause that says you can only delete it after they have used it to train their AI

This post has been edited by 15cm: Aug 10 2024, 10:50 PM

I have a growing child. With a google photo widget on my screen, it automatically searches for my child's face, and projects all the pics. very very nice memory. but i'm not prepared to fork up extra. neither am i willing to live without this too.

For me? Yeah. RM85/year for the 100GB.

Been using Gdrive since 2012. Started getting the 100GB plan since 2 years ago.

I've been shooting travel photography with my girlfriend to now wife since 2010. So all those memories are continually replying on my Google nest and tv.. yes it's awesome.. it's always a conversation topic for my first who comes to my place. Where's that? What's interesting etc.

Also you can setup one nest displays all family moments, another your vacation moments and another all the highlights. At least that's how I set it up

of course worth if u want store something, if u can pay why not, everyone doing it