As the title says I'm looking for online storage for pictures and important e-document backup.

Needs to be somewhat secure as there will be personal info in some of the docs.

Mainly just a picture backup of family photos etc. though.

Don't really want to give Google or Amazon business, but if they're the best option I will. I need around 500 GB so a plain Google Drive won't work

If you don't want to use Google or Amazon, Dropbox is likely the biggest provider that's not either of those.

$9.99/month for 2 TB of storage.

If you are an Amazon Prime member you get unlimited storage for photos at no additional cost (still photos, not unlimited for video).

I use Carbonite…

Have you considered an on site NAS first. I recommend TrueNAS and at least two multi terabyte hard drives. Then Backblaze online backup after that.

Apple icloud an option? They have up to 2TB. For any sensitive data, I'll create an encrypted folder/vault dump my files in there and then store it online.

Apple Link

Another Carbonite user here. It's not as convenient for documents you want to edit and resave on multiple devices/locations, DropBox better for that. You can retrieve, view or forward items stored in Carbonite, but would have to get updated items back to the PC running Carbonite for an updated backup.

In my opinion a really good backup that is remote to my possibly burned or tornado ravaged house, no matter how many local backups or drives I put there (I do have one locally for extra and easier access). Carbonite runs every day at a time I can pick. I've been using it for about 11 years now, no problems!

Sync is eight bucks / month for 2 TB -- that's 20% lower cost than DropBox or iCloud.

I use Microsoft OneDrive. It is part of my Microsoft Office subscription.

I highly recommend Microsoft 365

You can do a single account for $69.99 and family for $99.99 annually

Have had the family account for few years now and my wife and I each have up to 1TB each - store all our pictures and documents - and with OneDrive we can share files/folders so we can each edit our budget / finance spreadsheets as well as pictures etc - from any device - very handy

I also keep an idrive account as a secondary backup for our most important files


/BTW - Office 365 is what we use for work as well - I now have over 100 users using it - complete game changer with OneDrive (and SharePoint/Teams) for sharing files/folders and Teams in general

The price has gone up but I have 5 TB lifetime with Icedrive.

I also have 4 TB lifetime with pCloud but I think they're even more expensive than Icedrive.

Icedrive includes a encrypted volume while encrypted volume for pCloud is extra.

Both have zero-knowledge encryption.

I also have Microsoft 365 but I do not store my critical files there. I just assume any microsoft employee can access it. I do have the ability to encrypt a volume using a separate program but I don't bother since I already have two cloud storage for that along with three physical back up drives.

I use Microsoft 365 to keep a mirror of my regular C drive documents.

I don't trust the cloud or services.

Photobucket. Nuff said.

A large physical drive at home will do the same, used only for backup the service life is extended.

For example: https://www.newegg.com/seagate...oduct&quicklink=true

There are pros and cons to it all, as those who found their thermostats turned down arriving at home have discovered. The utility was given permission thru an app to do that.

Leaving personal ID out on the cloud means a scraper program will harvest it. It might be one of 50 million others but it's out there.

This is coming from a guy who has had one credit card transaction on his phone in the last two years.

Might sound extreme, yes, I know it's viewed as a wild and careless lifestyle trusting the internet like that.

I use both iCloud and OneDrive and have been very happy with both.

Mrs. Mike copies our computer and all that stuff on an external drive with a TB of space. Cheap, easy, secure in our safe.