Cloud, or not

[iwoo9]

Hi,

Apologies if this has been done to death already, but I couldn't find the info I need when I searched.

I'm going to Australia and New Zealand for about six weeks. I'll be taking an Insta360. a Panasonic Compact camera and a DJI Osmo Action 5. My concern is storing the footage from the action cameras. I know that Insta have a cloud based solution, but the biggest they offer is 2Tb. This worries me as I brough back half a Tb when I took a couple of GoPros to Bulgaria, and the Insta files are much bigger.

What solutions do people use when they are on the road? I am thinking cloud based or taking a laptop and some external hard drives.

TIA

Ian

[AnTyx]

The non-technical questions:

1) Are you a videographer and is this a video production trip as its main purpose? I.e. how much time out of your trip are you expecting to spend on setting up and getting good shots, rather than enjoying the surroundings yourself?

2) What are you going to do with the footage once you get back? Are you commissioned to do a video that someone will pay you for? Do you already have a popular channel? Or are you going to spend massive amounts of time editing one more travel video that will get 358 views on youtube?

The technical responses:

3) Any cloud solution, no matter how much space, will strongly depend on your upload speeds and capacity. Are you sure you will have a powerful uplink in your hotel WiFi to dump hundreds of gigs of footage in a reasonable time, and/or will your local SIM card's traffic limits hold up to it?

4) If you want loads of online storage space for cheap, look into things like Amazon Glacier - but will be a lot less automated than the gadget maker's own online solution.

5) Google Drive will happily sell you terabytes and terabytes of space on an expensive monthly plan (https://one.google.com/about/plans) and it has the advantage that you can just dump the files onto your main device - including an Android phone - and it will gradually back it up to the cloud in the background whenever you have a connection. Apple's iCloud and Microsoft's OneDrive will do the same for their respective platforms, for a cost.

6) ...SD cards are cheap. Get them in bulk and swap them out as they fill up. No faffing with dumping to an external hard drive every night.

[Turbofurball]

I'd just buy a 1Kg brick of (comparatively) small capacity SD Cards if it was me, and view any cloud storage as a backup only, assuming you'll have good internet for uploading all the time.

That being said, I don't personally take any video while motorbike riding, just a handful of photos to remember highlights and pretty things