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Speed to upload photos in the cloud

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Hi I would like to know how long it will take up to 15GB photos to the cloud.

The files are 489 photographs in RAW 35 Mb, more or less each

Sorry for my English

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Peter, it is very difficult for anyone to give you a precise answer as the time required will depend on a number of factors.

1.  What is your upload speed for your broadband / DSL connection?

2.  What format are your photos created in, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP ?

In my own case, my broadband speeds as measured using http://www.speedtest.net/ is shown as 50MBps download and 3.0MBps for upload.

The important point to note with the upload speed is that MBps = Mega Bits per Second NOT Mega Bytes!

See http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/04/confusion-broadband-isp-speeds-megabits-vs-megabytes.html for an article describing the difference between these 2 units, but in essence 1MByte = 8MBits so upload (and download) speeds are not a direct bits to bytes comparison.

The second factor is the degree of compression already used in the photo files - JPEG files are already highly compressed as you can check easily by adding a number of JPEGs to a ZIP file where the file will be almost identical in size to the total size of the JPEGs.

When uploading compression is used where possible but for highly compressed files like JPEGs this isn't possible therefore the time to upload will be much longer than for an equivalent sized document file which can be compressed to a fraction of its original size.

Hi Steve, sorry for not answering before.
files are raw.
my connection is very bad 8.43Mbps download and upload 0.64 Mbps
as soon as possible, I switch with fiber optic provider.
I guess, as a photographer, it is impossible to back up in the cloud with these speeds

 

For years I try, but it was an impossible mission,
Now with the new acronis, supposed to be faster

Hi Peter, the real issue is with your very poor upload speeds which are not a whole lot better than having a dialup connection at only 0.64 Mbps - I hope you will see very much improved speeds when you are able to switch to a fibre optic connection.

The alternative for you at this point would be to invest in a local NAS solution which would sit on your own local network and be able to store all your photos away from your computer. This doesn't give you the offline protection that using Cloud offers but depending on how your local network is setup may offer you the ability to put the NAS in a secure location locally within your property, perhaps even inside a fire-proof safe if you can have small holes to introduce the network and power cables for the NAS through.