The best way to store your images

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Before the digital age, photographs were stored either as negatives, slides or prints. They were physical things that would be lost or physically destroyed. In terms of digital, images are a watery mix of virtual 1s and 0s that can be erased or corrupted in the blink of an eye. Dropped a 1TB hard drive on the floor by accidentally, you could be saying goodbye to over 30,000 images in one go. And there is one else, no one really knows how long it will last. 20 years? 50 years? They haven’t been around long enough for us to find out yet... 
This means the photographer in this digital age has to consider file storage very carefully. Today, there are now several different affordable storage options on the market, which, when used in combination, should help you safeguard your photos for many years to come. In this article, you will take a closer look at the four main types. We recommend you keep three copies of everything, with images saved across two different types of storage, kept in at least one location. This is commonly known as the three-two one rule, and every photographer should follow it.

Hard disk drive

The vast majority of the world’s photographs are stored on a hard drive, or HDD, just like the one found in your computer or laptop. HDDs are relatively cheap and compact, which is why they’re the common and popular storage solution. However, they’re also fairly fragile and may stop working if dropped or knocked, meaning backup is an absolute essential.

Solid State Drive

A solid-state drive, or SSD, is used in SD cards and USB sticks, commonly use in recent computers and laptops. Differ with HDD, it has no moving parts, it means less fragile. This makes SSDs a more reliable storage option, especially if you plan to bring it frequently. From the view of pricing, solid-state drives are a lot more expensive than regular hard drives. More large capacity means putting them out of the reach of those on a tight budget.

Raid Storage

A RAID is several hard drives linked together in a single casing. Everything is copied to all the drives, so if one fails, you won’t lose anything. It has the capability to remove the broken drive from the casing and slot in another. Most businesses use RAIDs. A RAID can contain two drives or several, depending on how secure you want your data to be. Recently this is more common for home use so the price was relatively inexpensive. 

Cloud Storage

This is not hardware, it is online storage. Since this kind of service is common these days so photographers are now turning to the Cloud to store their images. The photoshoot result is uploaded to a remote server and stored for a small fee. You can find Cloud sites that offer several gigabytes of storage for free. The security, averagely, is secure than a hard drive, and data can be accessed from anywhere in the world. In a matter of upload and download images, maybe it is the downside, and you need to be on a package with unlimited data. The other downside is that you have no control over the security of your shots.

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