My photos are very important to me. Everything I shoot I keep, as long as it's exposed and vaguely in focus then it stays. I still have all my college negatives and every digital shot taken in the last four years.
That being said, three times since the 'Switch' to digital I've had hard drive failure.
Granted the amount I've abused them over the years and I would expect a dud here or there but as a professional this is something I cant have with my work.
Out of everything I need my work station to be resilient and stable and for my shots to be there when needed.
The first time I had a hard drive fail, I lost about 300GB (about 15000 raw files from a modern DSLR) from a widely known HD manufacturer. From that day on I swore I would never use them again.
These days I have my images on two drives locally to my work station (one internal mirrored raid drive and two external drives, one of which stores CR2 files and one DNG files and final edits and PSD's) and also on my Flickr Pro account, which is my remote fail safe, it has my final edits and I can get them anytime from anywhere.
Ideally the shots would be stored on DVD keep these copies elsewhere but this has proved to be difficult to manage.
My workstation has a data drive with everything important and current (mirrored raid of course), then two more network drives.
It's very easy to not think about it but one failure and you'll regret it, so these days I can't say it too many times.
It doesn't have to be a fancy solution but it's a very good idea to have some of your important files elsewhere other than on your main drive.
A good idea is to look at external drives like the LaCie drives. They go up to 8TB now, which is a hell of a lot of photos.
With a solution like this you know that they will be very secure and the peace of mind that you will never lose your images is well worth every penny.
Hi, my name is Keith Trigwell. I'm a live music photographer and I also have a passionate interest in most other types of photography, particularly portraiture and Fine Art. My live music shots can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/bigmojo
To pass the time I also write a few articles on photography and technical photographic matters.
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