LaCie Introduces Several New Rugged SSDs for Creatives
LaCie has introduced three new SSDs that might be perfect for photographers on the road.
Photography Backup
Tutorials about photography backups and reviews of hard drives, RAID systems and SSDs for photographers.
6 Ways to Speed up Your Drobo
Drobos are an excellent, cost-effective backup soultion. Having used Drobos to store my photos for over a decade, I have a few tricks up my sleeve to speed them up.
Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD Review
The Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD manages to explain itself very well in its own name. It’s an SSD, and it’s extremely small! But is it any good? Let’s find out.
How to Measure Memory Card and Hard Drive Speeds
Measuring the speed of your memory cards and hard drives can help you isolate problems, and show you weaknesses in your photography workflow. The software to test these things is free and simple to use! In this post I’ll show you my top three.
Disk Drill Review – Recover Lost and Deleted Photos
Accidents happen, and unfortunately the vast majority of people don’t have a safe photo backup strategy like mine. If you do find yourself in a situation where you’ve lost some photos or other files, you have a couple of options: Firstly, if it’s a hardware failure such as a dead disc platter, you’re only option is to send it in to a data recovery specialist and pay a large amount of money. If your disk or memory card won’t even mount to your computer, or it is making a catastrophic noise, this is really your only option and there’s no …
Best Rugged Hard Drives for Photographers in 2023
A “rugged” drive is one that has been designed to withstand bumps and drops, as well as offering at least some protection from water. Let’s examine the best rugged hard drives for photographers this year.
When Is a Photo Backup Not a Photo Backup? RAID Advice
If you don’t understand a few essential things about backups and RAID systems, your photos are at risk. Please take the time to read this!
LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C Review
A detailed review of the LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt + USB-C portable, bus-powered hard drive. Is this the best hard drive for your photo storage needs?
My Photo Backup Routine – Early 2018
I started this particular series of posts back in 2015 by detailing my photography backup routine and outlining some of the basic strategies for a safe and redundant backup system. If you’re uncertain about the basics, you should start with that post first and then work through the full series which you can find here. I write this series because I want to draw attention to the importance of backing up your photos. Once again, last month one of my friends had a hard drive failure and lost most of the photos she had taken in 2017 because she didn’t take basic …
The Mindset That’s Costing People Their Images: Digital Photography is NOT Free!!
When it comes to protecting my huge archive of digital images I take absolutely no chances. My archive is stored on a Drobo which gives me some redundancy from drive failure. That Drobo is mirrored to a second Drobo which also has redundancy from drive failure, and then another copy of the same archive is stored off site on another Drobo. To lose my image archive I would basically need to have six simultaneous hard drive failures across two distinct geographic locations. Even then it would only take out the full archive which would leave me with copies of all …