Can we talk about digital photo storage?

[Janna]

This has been asked several times, I know. But I don't think there has been set answers for the following questions:

 

What do you do with your SIM cards? Do you:

 

 

• use the same one over and over, deleting once it's been downloaded
  
• fill up one, regardless of them being downloaded, and start on another, labeling and saving each one?
  

 

 

Once you have downloaded your photos, do you:

 

 

• copy onto a jump drive, saving each jump drive as it fills up
  
• copy onto a digital storage website
  
• use an external hard drive
  
• copy onto archival quality CD-R's and placed in a book
  

 

 

Do you print out your photos and put them in albums?

 

I need to get organized. Badly. I like these a lot, but don't know of the practicality of them, esp. in lieu of how fast technology is changing.

 

I really need answers of what you do. And if you do everything online, can you help me understand how you feel safe with that? I mean, I want something tangible in my hand - esp. important things like photos.

 

Thanks!

[Crissy]

This has been asked several times, I know. But I don't think there has been set answers for the following questions:

 

What do you do with your SIM cards? Do you:

 

 

• use the same one over and over, deleting once it's been downloaded. Yes. This is exactly what we do.

• fill up one, regardless of them being downloaded, and start on another, labeling and saving each one? No. I wouldn't waste the money on a new card that is meant to be reused. I don't know what your camera takes, but cards for my husband's cameras run around $120. A cd costs about $.07.

 

 

Once you have downloaded your photos, do you:

 

 

• copy onto a jump drive, saving each jump drive as it fills up

• copy onto a digital storage website

• use an external hard drive. I use external drives, but also keep a file on my computer until I have back up disks made. External drives occasionally fail (just lost one last week).
• copy onto archival quality CD-R's and placed in a book. Yes. We have cds or dvds containing all of the images we've shot since we went digital.

 

 

Do you print out your photos and put them in albums?

No. We print those we want to give away or frame for a desk or to hang on the wall.

 

I need to get organized. Badly. I like these a lot, but don't know of the practicality of them, esp. in lieu of how fast technology is changing.

We buy an inexpensive brand of CD and we've never had storage/failure issues. These are terribly overpriced. You could make two back up copies and save a bundle over this brand.

 

I really need answers of what you do. And if you do everything online, can you help me understand how you feel safe with that? I mean, I want something tangible in my hand - esp. important things like photos.

 

Thanks!

 

 

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[Mom2GirlsTX]

I always download the pictures to my hard drive and then clear the cards for re-use. I keep several hard drives going for photo storage only, and I do have backups of them. Given how cheap CD are and given how cheap flashdrives have become (buy.com had a 4gb for about $12.00 this week) there are alot of choices to safely save your photos. This is just a thought, but if you make double copies of your pictures, you could have a family member who doesn't live with you (mom and dad) store a copy of your pictures, and in the event of a tragedy (fire, tornado, etc) say your photos were destroyed at your house, you would have a safe backup copy some place else. Can you tell I don't want to loose my kids pictures...lol:)

[ElizabethB]

We store one copy on our hard drive and erase the camera media.

 

...but, our hard drive is actually 2 hard drives in a RAID array, very safe.

 

Once a year or so I save all the pictures on a DVD or two, our smaller important documents are on flash drives and portable hard drives.