How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? 680
mxhf writes "I just came back from a four-week vacation to Mexico. This is the country for Aztecs and Maya Ruins and we visited plenty of them. Needless to say we took thousands of pictures with two cameras. Having arrived back home I realize that my hard-disk does not have enough space left to hold the additional 16GB that I collected on the other side of the globe. Now, my hard disk already is 250GB. I work exclusively on a laptop and do not want to change this. I know that there are larger disks today. But I figured that the time has come to finally move my image collection from my laptop to somewhere else. But where should I go? So, how do you store your photo collections? And how do you keep backups? These are obviously images that I want to keep for my life. So the need to survive fires, burglaries, etc. I think the amount of data I have rules online storage out. Should I just get two USB disks and leave one at a reasonably save location? I think this must be a common problem today. And yes — before you ask — I do know that the first thing to do is to go through your collection and dump what is not worth keeping."
Facebook of course (Score:5, Funny)
My solution (Score:4, Funny)
I upload them to 4chan, from where they will be stored on a multitude of /b/tards' harddrives forever.
Re:USB Drive, SAN/NAS, LTO ... (Score:5, Funny)
Who the fuck would set up a SAN for personal photos?
this is slashdot...
Re:USB Drive, SAN/NAS, LTO ... (Score:5, Funny)
and send the drive to your Mom for off-site storage.
How is upstairs off-site?
Re:Facebook of course (Score:4, Funny)
Facebook is great! Even if you delete your photos they'll still be there!
Re:How I back up photos/videos (Score:5, Funny)
Main store is on a MAC
Can't store a lot of data in 6 bytes...
Re:How I back up photos/videos (Score:5, Funny)
Main store is on a MAC
Can't store a lot of data in 6 bytes...
It's compressed... a lot.