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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

In this digital world, what's the best way of preserving photographs? Personally I drop all my digi photos onto an external hard drive, then regularly back that up onto a second external drive just in case the first ever goes down. I did used to store them on my PC's hdd but that ran out of space!

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Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Same as you Rick Double up on external HDD.
Thank God I do, just had the PC wiped clean by a virus/trojan.
thankfully just a pain, nothing lost as nothing is saved internaly.

I did start to back up to cd, I now fined that some of the cd's won't play ball.

Roger

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7212 Location: Edinburgh

I copy the half decent photos onto my laptop but I don't delete them from the camera's SD card. I just buy new SD cards when I eventually fill them.

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Peter_L · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:17 pm Post subject:

Like Roger I gave up on CD's many years ago. I had two that grew tiny little holes so that was the end of CD's.

Now I use external and remote, as in outside of the house, HDD's accessed via wireless/router. One doesn't need a very large structure to hold a small HDD and Router, just a power supply and weatherproof.

They were originally the 250Gb ones, but a few months back I changed them both for 2Tb... (2000 Gb). Each contains the same data and can be accessed via wireless from either computer.