SmugMug starts at $13 monthly (or $110 yearly) and offers a 14 day trial.
Mylio software seagate free#
Mylio costs $99 yearly and has a free 30-day trial. I’ve got my photo collection handled in two places, and Mylio is covering me for photos and videos. And here’s where the SmugMug/Mylio combo can work very nicely. So if you’re someone like me with tons of video files, you need to back up your video on multiple hard drives. You won’t be able to save those files in SmugMug unless you process them into smaller files. Turn on your GoPro, snap it to the car and take a video of your drive, or let your drone fly in the sky for over 5 minutes, and you’ll easily get to 4 GB and higher.
These are tough restrictions for anyone who’s serious about their video making. Video files aren’t unlimited, unless they’re no larger than 3 GB and less than 20 minutes long. JPG photos are unlimited RAW files can be backed up for an additional fee. SmugMug has unlimited backup, which is something you won’t find with Microsoft, Apple, Google or Dropbox, but there are those *caveats. Mylio also saves those snaps to your Vault. The SmugMug smartphone app is fantastic, saving every shot to the cloud right after you snap it. Sometimes I’ll find something in SmugMug that I can’t find on Mylio, or vice-versa.īoth have auto backup features.
Mylio software seagate plus#
Mylio for good, physical, backup and privacy focused online access to your photos SmugMug for another layer of backup, with online, plus the ability to sell prints and downloads, present a great-looking online portfolio and run your website.Īnd both will set you free from the hands of Big Tech.īoth Mylio and SmugMug have good searches, but they’re not perfect. )Īnd speaking of SmugMug, the “do-it-all” photo place is also a PhotowalksTV sponsor, and I’ve had questions about whether to have Mylio or SmugMug. The bad: they might not look very good. ( See below. The good news: you’ll have all your social images in one place. Add your social media photos to the collection, if you like, but fair warning–any image from Facebook or Instagram will be very low resolution, because that’s what the Meta company does. Tag your faces, to help Mylio figure out who everyone is. Once you’re in sync, you’ll need to take time to begin the organization process. In my case, I have so much media it took over a month. You need to “sync” everything from your library, which can take as long as a day, if you don’t have much media, or much longer.
Mylio software seagate full#
If you try to connect Mylio to a pre-existing drive that’s not chock full of room, you’ll probably run out space quickly.Ĭonnect the drives to Mylio, create “vaults” and be patient. Five TBs should be able to handle several years of shooting. I found these Seagate drives with 5 TB of space and they sell for just over $100. I recommend buying two brand new drives and using them as your connected backup. By having two drives, you’re covered in case one fails. (And it will. You’ll use them to create “vaults” which will automatically back up every photo and video you snap on your phone or camera. In order to make Mylio work for you, you’ll want two extra hard drives with lots and lots of room. In an era where we’re shooting more and more high resolution photos and videos, our collections are constantly growing, so let’s face it, we need all the help we can get. You’ll pay $99.99 a year for the features, and in the process of setting it up, you’ll have a stronger backup system than you had before. Fine print: make that connected hard drive backup, where you can access your images from wherever in the world you are, via the Mylio app. Because while yes, it’s online retrieval, it’s also traditional hard drive backup.
Mylio is a different way of looking at online backup. Because now my photos and videos* are backed up and much safer than they were previously. I can live with a product for an extended period of time, and really get to know it.īut once I got through the growing pains, I appreciated that I went through the process. The nice thing about not working for a daily newspaper anymore is that I have the time to not have to make a snap judgement. Mylio was with us for October and November, and it took me awhile to post this, because, frankly, it took me awhile to get Mylio set up. But as always, I’ll give you my honest opinion.
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