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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)
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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

not if you have more than 2tb of data because you're a videographer or an audio engineer

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you have 2 tb + of cloud storage then you are far removed from the average person lol.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    S3 would be pretty cheap.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Only if you have archived data and use fitting lifecycle policies. 2TB of regular S3 would cost ~$40 which is about 4x the price of Google Drive. That's not even accounting for the data retrieval costs.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have nearly 2 TB of storage used by iCloud Photo Library and it's mostly just photos and videos of my kids and travel photos taken on my iPhone, I don't feel too far removed from the average person...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thats alot of photos/videos to be fair.

    Can i ask?

    When do you look at/watch them?

    I have the basic google drive expansion the 100gb one and i feel like it would take hour/days to go through ever photo/video i have on there and its not even clost to full. I only just exceeded the 15gb limit.

    My wife has a few more than 15gb and uses a physical drive to backup. I would dread to think how long it would take to view everything on it.

    2TB sounds out of the ordi.ary to me.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    When do you look at/watch them?

    Not OP, but same situation. I usually don't, but my mother who lives far from us does every day. We take a lot of photos and videos, she gets to watch them and she's up to speed on our kids' lives, can talk to them about stuff they did today, etc. We feel like it lets her be a part of their lives in a way.

    Then you have that Google Photos feature where you get automatically created mini albums like "they grow up so fast" or "now vs then", it will compile a couple of photos from 7, 6, 5, ... Years ago and we watch those religiously, often coming back to the particular event from which some photo is. We can spend an entire evening going through older photos like that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My dog died recently, and those freaking memory reels keep messing up my day. I can't not look at them, and when I do, I'm in tears after a minute.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    As a side note, as much as I enjoy the odd "then and now" collage, or "this time 3 years ago" album, I really miss those old "auto awesome" videos Google photos used to make, with a mix of video and stills set to music. Don't know why they stopped doing them but they were great.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah I do. Sometimes go through travel albums, but there's also a lot of "hmm when did we go ?" or "oh, you're going , we went there before, you have to check out this thing" and spur of the moment lookups of random things

    One thing is that 4K video takes up A LOT of space.

    I could probably reduce the storage used if I went through everything and delete duplicates but that would take weeks.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Maybe try this then, I've heard good things about them. $7/mo for unlimited storage.

    https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/personal

    Actually a bit confused by their pricing structure, I think it's $0.005/gb, I could be wrong. So 2tb would be like $20/mo ($10 base + $10 for 2000gb), still pretty cheap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Sorry but you are using the wrong cloud storage provider.

    I've switched to pCloud on black Friday. It was a one time payment for 2TB lifetime (10TB is also available) cloud storage. I checked and it was ~250€ at the time.

    Considering the amount of HDD I've burned through in the early years I've already saved a couple thousand dollars and I haven't lost any file since.

    Just make sure to watch their price as they currently have a sale and I don't believe for 1 second that the initial price was in fact 1140€ for 2TB as advertised.

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