Over about 14 years, I’ve amassed a collection of dozens of CDs and DVDs as well as a 160GB external HD - all for the purposes of backing up my files.
There are old PST files in there, previous versions of my personal website, files from my EA Canada days (design docs, etc) and virtually everything I’ve done professionally for almost my entire career. I’m amazed the CDs held up as well as they have as some of them go back to 1997, at least.
So now we’re in the middle of a giant Life Streamlining project… we’ve sold our house and virtually all our possessions, and swapped our analog assets (DVDs, Blurays, books) for digital ones (I paid a local guy $100 to convert 76 DVDs to ISO & MP4 format!).
In that spirit of streamlining, I decided to amalgamate all my various backups into one online location (and likely a physical USB HDD as well). When I started poking around for how best to do this, it wasn’t super simple. There are two big swaths to the cloud storage industry:
