Amy Rivera66 said:You’d be better off printing them so you actually have physical copies.
I used to keep everything on my computer and constantly put off burning them to a DVD or getting them printed, and then one day my drive died or Microsoft Windows crashed and everything was gone. It felt like I had lost five years of my life...
Now I have another huge backlog and I’m procrastinating again. 🙄 I mean, I’d make them all if it weren't so expensive these days. For instance, printing is the cheapest option—a 6x5 inch photo is maybe 10 cents if I remember correctly—but when you're looking at 1,000 photos, that adds up fast. They even have deals where every third print is free now, but still.
Once, I did a test run of 50 photos and they turned out great, but since uploading those 50 took over an hour, I don't even want to imagine how long it would take for 1,000. 😲
True, it's expensive, and besides, where do you even store it all?🤷.
I make one large photo book a year, though I hesitate because $333 larger formats are quite pricey. But even then, it doesn't account for even 10 percent of what I have.
Just recently, my friends and I were talking about this because we swap photos at the end of summer, and everyone just keeps them on their computers, constantly putting off deciding what to do with them, just like you said.
I bought two external hard drives, but I bought them on the same day, same brand (I think that was a mistake), and I keep them under the exact same conditions.
It isn't actually that illogical for them to fail at the same time. You go to look at your pictures after a few months and—poof...
I'll also make a backup on a DVD.
Question: If anyone's external hard drive has failed, how long did it last before it died? 😁 Thanks.
@Laura Evans3/">@@Laura Evans3 I looked into storage servers, but I'm not entirely clear on the concept. Could you give me a sentence or two?
It would be ideal if information could be recovered even if a drive fails. 🙂.
