Just curious how everyone else is archiving their pictures and hoping that I might pick up a tip or two that other photographers use.
Right now the options to me seem to be:
External HDD (synced) / NAS
Pros: Safe from failures of hardware like computer power supply failure
Cons: Comparatively expensive, limited lifespan, still prone to other failures like surges, faulty power adapter etc.
Another internal HDD (optionally in RAID1/RAID5)
Pros: Comparatively cheaper
Cons: Possible failure together with other internal drives
Online Archival
This is the one I'm interested in the most, I have a Flickr pro account that allows me to store my photos at full resolution - but I would not rely on any single service to keep my data 100% safe, perhaps there are other sites with huge storage (paid or free) that's great for archiving pictures... Please recommend! Hopefully they've been around for more than a few months as well so we know that they're not going to close down tomorrow after I've uploaded thousands of photos to it
Right now the options to me seem to be:
External HDD (synced) / NAS
Pros: Safe from failures of hardware like computer power supply failure
Cons: Comparatively expensive, limited lifespan, still prone to other failures like surges, faulty power adapter etc.
Another internal HDD (optionally in RAID1/RAID5)
Pros: Comparatively cheaper
Cons: Possible failure together with other internal drives
Online Archival
This is the one I'm interested in the most, I have a Flickr pro account that allows me to store my photos at full resolution - but I would not rely on any single service to keep my data 100% safe, perhaps there are other sites with huge storage (paid or free) that's great for archiving pictures... Please recommend! Hopefully they've been around for more than a few months as well so we know that they're not going to close down tomorrow after I've uploaded thousands of photos to it
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