29 March 2008

Flickr or Picasa Web Albums

I was thinking to buy an online photo album storage to store all my photo albums. From my previous trip to UK, I have already taken around 6GB of photos! So I do need a larger space for my photos and it’s price must be affordable. I have reviewed and compared two online photos storage provider: Flickr from Yahoo and Picasa Web Albums from Google.

Below are the pricing plans for both Flickr and Picasa Web Albums:

Flickr

- Unlimited uploads (10MB per photo)
- Unlimited storage
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited photosets
- Archiving of high-resolution original images
- The ability to replace a photo
- Post any of your photos in up to 60 group pools
- Ad-free browsing and sharing
- $24.95 USD per year

Picasa Web Albums

- 10 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
- 40 GB ($75.00 USD per year)
- 150 GB ($250.00 USD per year)
- 400 GB ($500.00 USD per year)

I’m not worrying the reliability of the storage and features provided by both companies because they are giant companies with very good reputation.

With the photos I have right now, I think the Flickr’s plan is much more worthy. I can easily hit 10GB limit offered by Google and if so, I will require to pay $75.00 USD per year or maybe more! With Flickr’s plan, the money I need to pay is not affected by the amount of photo that I have.

Without thinking too much, I have bought the Flickr plan for 2 years :)

I have took some times and affords to find the pricing plan for both provider. So I put the links in this post just in case someone need it.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#28

Picasa Web Albums: https://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=65431 (require google account login);