Photo Storage question
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I have a large collection of my father’s Barber Shop memorabilia that he would like to have photographed for Ins. Etc. my question is what would be the best solution for storing the images long term, I’m guessing I will have about 1000 pictures when I’m done, any suggestions.
I think DVDs or CDs can be fine. Burn them to disc and put a copy or two in a safety deposit box when it comes to photographing personal belongings for insurance claims, etc.
My dads the kind of guy that wears a belt and suspenders just in case, so for less than say $200 I could do all of that not including any reoccurring or online fees?
Thanks for the help guys.
Any suggestions on inventory software to assign values and other details to each itemFor less than 100 bucks you can probably find good portable HDDs with one terabyte or more of space. I use 1 and 2 terabyte portables (as well as two T external HDDs) for my back up purposes and I have thousands of large RAW and TIFF files on them. One T and probably even far less (500mb) is going to be way more than you need for 1,000 jpegs.
http://store.apple.com/ca/product/H9987VC/A/g-tech-500gb-g-drive-usb-30-slim-portable-hard-drive?afid=p219%7CGOUS&cid=AOS-US-KWG-PLAIn fact I always have at least one portable with my database with me at all times. In short, my entire library can be found at home on externals, on my person (portable) and in a safety deposit (portable).
HDDs fail for a number of reasons, not the least is constant use. CDs and DvDs are just as prone to failure if not more, nor have the same archival intergrity. Once you copy the data to a HDD you should always be able to retreive it short of a nuclear device :). Ask any criminal who has wiped HHDs clean and more, what can and cant be retreived 🙂
take your shots and catalogue the images as you go. Copy the data to a portable HDD and with the catalogued data (descriptions and values) either hard copy (paper) or electronic put in a safety deposit box.
What about the ultimate fail safe option
> prints? You can have an inexpensive set of 4×6″ glossies made and place them in a bank deposit box. No electricity needed. Plus, they’ll be there ready to view even after the Zombie Apocalypse. Just sayin’db
prints (though they’re not permenant and will fade over time) are pretty much a great option when stored in a fire safe. Also, if you’re saving images as JPG instead of RAW, why not store them on a USB thumb drive? Less chance of failure since there are no moving parts as compared to a hard drive.
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http://instagram.com/chad_simcox InstagramEven .06 per image. With a thousand jpegs your looking 60 bucks for 4x6prints and bulk. For that money Id rather have another portable. Chads idea of a usb flash drive might be the best option.
What about sending and then saving some photos to your gmail account?
I save a lot of word files that way.
Randy
Thanks for all the suggestions, I think I’m going to go with a bit of each option, including a set of actual photos for Dad with a second copy in my gun safe. Completing things in smaller chunks as I go was also obvious but sound advice.
MSAlso, remember that hard drive connections will change over time. If this were 10-12 years ago, people would be advising you to save back ups on Jazz drive disks. The reader connected using a parallel port. When was the last time you saw one of those? USB1 and Firewire 400 has, for the most part, been phased out as well. So if you’re thinking drives (including the thumb drive option I mentioned) is a long term solution, just make sure you update the archives as technology transitions.
http://society6.com/grainfarmer Fly Fishing and Landscape open edition Photography prints.
http://grainfarmer.vsco.co/ iPhone photos
http://instagram.com/chad_simcox Instagram
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