Ask HN: What do you use for media storage?

3 points by rco8786 7y ago ↗ HN

Had my first little one recently, and it dawned on me that my iphone’s storage is gonna run out real quickly with all the pictures and videos.

The wife and I don’t want to use social media as our “solution” (in fact we don’t really use it at all, especially Facebook). So I’m wondering what other folks use. I’m thinking I might just upgrade my Dropbox account, but not against turning it into a little project of sorts either if there’s some benefit.

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walterbell 7y ago ↗

PhotoSync on iOS will safely move photo/video from the phone to remote storage, including other phones, tablets, local PCs, NAS or cloud.

iXpand Drive is natively supported by some iOS apps (e.g. Filmic Pro and LumaFusion for video) and can import/export directly to a 32/64/128G external flash storage.

FreeNAS works on low-end PCs. There are commercial NAS like Synology with iOS apps.

brandonb2124 7y ago ↗

I use google photos for anything with my iPhone as it's unlimited storage with unnoticeable compression. As for computer related files and videos I use google drive through my old university email since that also has unlimited storage.