Heads up, Amazon Prime members! The Prime Early Access Sale is now happening, which means it’s time to scour the site for the top steals and best deals for photographers. So, if you’ve been waiting for the chance to update your gear and grab some essentials, there’s a lot you
You can probably find any other item that we use in our creative lives that’s more exciting than internal hard drives and SSDs. However, you’d be hard-pressed to find another item that we rely on as heavily nor that’s as critical (outside of a camera and lens) to what we
Modern cameras are faster, smarter, and more powerful than ever before. While we reap the rewards of these technological marvels there’s one thing modern creators tend to forget about. Storage space. We need more and more of these days. Fortunately, there are lots of external SSDs that can make our
A lot of image files are precious to us. We need to back them up and store them. And we need to do so safely so we don’t lose them! But they keep accumulating and accumulating and accumulating …. Storing terabytes of data on a budget I’m going to describe
When a hard drive fails, it can wreak havoc on your work day. Let me share with you how, in 2010, I built a reliable, cost-effective storage solution that grew over the years as I grew—saving me time and money. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) RAID sounds scary, but
There’s a new box on the block! It is a whole lot more affordable and all of what we’d expect in terms of quality from Drobo. Bottom Line: The 5C is an affordable, super simple and easy to use, expandable, directly-attached storage device that can hold up to five 3.5″ drives of
That’s right…March 31st is World Backup Day! The stories and memories we capture through images are priceless, but they may not last forever without a solid backup plan. On World Backup Day, make sure that you’re precious files are backed up safe and sound. What should I Check Make sure
As a professional photographer in the digital age, protecting your data is one of the most important things you can do for your business (or hobby). Having come from a very heavy Computer and programming background, when I started shooting professionally, my backup routine was top priority! The first thing
