Digital Advent Calendar 2010 - Day 16

Storage

Today’s tip is about where you store all your digital photographs on your computer.

I thoroughly recommend you purchase an external hard drive and dedicate this to storage of your precious photographs.  Always avoid storing all your photographs on the same drive as your operating system as this is a very risky setup.  If your hard drive fails or you get a virus then you lose everything.  In addition to storing on an external hard drive, I recommend you make at least one back up of the external drive contents and store in a different location.

Archival Gold CD/DVDs are also another option as these will last up to 100 years compared to 3-4 years with standard blank CD/DVDs.

-Ben