
So perhaps if I can hand off some of my raw files to the cloud, then maybe I don't need to keep them locally. But I like doing it, and the jpg gives me a simple, easy to view image, while the Nikon raw file gives me something I can work with and tweak light levels and generally make better images. It's just not practical to keep a high-resolution jpg and a raw file of the same image. Long term, I won't be able to carry on storing raw images forever. In fact, I totted my total image library up and got to 1TB so far. We just switched to Metronet that has much faster upload speeds than Comcast. It took about 3 days to upload the photos. My Photos folder on the NAS contained about 270 GB of data, mostly photos but also some videos. A few albums of photos and you're talking about many, many gigabytes. Woo-hoo You will need to go to Amazonand install the Photos Desktop App that looks like this: So, I got started. My SLR produces jpegs of more than 10mb, and the raw counterparts are as much as 50mb. If you're a photographer though, the really great news is that Amazon allows you to store both jpegs and raw files.

Here's how it works - if you have Prime Photos with your Prime subscription, or you've paid the yearly fee (it's only $12 for just photos, by the way, a bargain for unlimited storage) then you can simply upload as many images to your drive as you like and they won't count against your storage allowance.
