1.5 Terabytes? (Assuming 6Mb/photo which is what I'm getting from an old nikon in raw format, dunno what everyone else is using - enlighten me please if necessary).
Less than USD$50 for a 2TB disk. So buy 3, post one to a family member when its full. Double the price it for SSD?
How much Amazon Photos storage do you get for $150? Ok for this guy, none, and I get connection refused from the link above so I got no details. But assuming it worked as advertised how much would you get?
Nikon RAWs are more like 50 Mb on their current cameras. Amazon offers unlimited photo storage with Prime.
I agree they should also have their own physical backup if the photos are important, even at ~10x the storage requirements you estimate, but I'd also say any complaints about Amazon losing their photos are valid.
Data point: I have 7T of "photo data". I think some proportion of that is video, but probably no more than 10%. I am quite old and it does include scans of all the film images I've taken since birth, and all of one side of my family's film media scanned, and backups of all the cell phone images from family members' devices. From memory however most of the data comes from digital-era DSLR images which can be 30-40M each.
None of this data is stored in a FAANG company's DC.
Less than USD$50 for a 2TB disk. So buy 3, post one to a family member when its full. Double the price it for SSD?
How much Amazon Photos storage do you get for $150? Ok for this guy, none, and I get connection refused from the link above so I got no details. But assuming it worked as advertised how much would you get?