Comments on: How to Safely Store Your Photography

By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:31:17 +0000

WD has a 1 TB Passport drive now. Crazy!!

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/security/western-digital/my_passport_essential_se_1tb/323018

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:08:42 +0000

I was also surprised to see Picasa missing from the list Having used a few different sites, I finally settled on Picasa. Partly because I already use Google for so many other things, and partly because it is so damn easy to use. Especially if you install the client.

They recently posted up their pricing for additional storage too.
20 GB – $5/yr
80 GB – $20/yr
200 GB – $50/yr
400 GB – $100/yr
1 TB – $256/yr
and so on.

By: Paul Sullivan

Paul Sullivan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:49:16 +0000

These days cloud Drives are increasingly popular. Google offer them at a range of sizes, right up to a ridiculously whopping 16TB: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/google-offers-a-16-terabyte-cloud-drive-for-4096-a-year/

By: AdventureRob

AdventureRob — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:46:34 +0000

I’ve met a couple of people who have lost data from a WD passport. I put my vote in for the Buffalo brand, I got 500Gb shock resistant one in Singapore for SG$200 (about US$130 but left it on a train :/ Good thing I have photos backed up on laptop still. I got another buffalo (although non shock resistant) 500Gb in Thailand for US$100 and have not had any problems with it since

Great article Lola!

By: John Wells

John Wells — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:47:51 +0000

I found this site called http://www.briteroots.com to scan my photos. They are relatively new, but affordable. Only 10 cents per photo. I got a DVD with my images and they archive all my high resolution photos online for free. I had some prints bought and sent to me from the site. Just a thought.

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By: Stephen Cornfield

Stephen Cornfield — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:59:33 +0000

What we preach at my company, Photo Field Imaging (www.photofieldimaging.com) is backups. Even for my own photography, I keep 3 copies of all data, including 2 external drives. This has always worked for myself and the clients that I server.

By: Lola Akinmade

Lola Akinmade — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:05:03 +0000

Craig – Thanks for the advice

Tyler – Can’t believe I forgot Picasa. Great tip! And thanks for the link. Lots of great photo sharing sites out there.

Erica – Glad you found the post useful.

By: Erica Johansson

Erica Johansson — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the tips Very useful! Recently I’ve been pondering how I should store my photographs, so I’m glad I found this blog post.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:55:25 +0000

flickr != flick’r

and

iPhoto is not on online photo sharing site.

what about Google’s Picasa, certainly one of the best:

http://picasa.google.com/

plus so many more:

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6451_7-6245099-1.html

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:52:48 +0000

Funnily enough, I just posted on hard-drives for travellers. We take a three-pronged approach to our photo backups. 1) Best shots go to flickr. 2) Secondary hard-drive goes in another bag. 3) DVD backups get send to my mum whenever I have another 4 gigs of photos (every 2 months on average). I once lost the photos from a two-week trip to Fiji due to a Windows virus; I've since switched to Mac and am paranoid about backups!