Now that you’ve got your 3-2-1 backup plan in place, and have safely stored your photos in the cloud, let’s get back to basics: what hard drive is best to store your photos? Choosing a hard drive (or, more likely, drives) for your photos is an important decision. Your workflow,
One of the biggest problems photographers face regularly is running out of disk space. Whether it be on your iPhone or your PC or Mac. Photos can consume massive amounts of storage as they collect over time. One of the issues I recently experienced was a series of lost duplicate
Why should you clone your hard drive? And what is the difference between creating a clone and a backup hard drive? How is a clone different from a backup? A disk clone moves the entire contents of one hard disk drive to another. This is effective when you want to
Today’s hard drive market offers numerous options, so it can be confusing to ensure you’re making the best decision to meet your needs. There are several factors to consider, including performance and price. However, your first action should be to decide between a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) or a
There’s that well-known saying among computer technicians: “It’s not if your hard drive will fail, it’s when.” So why do hard drives fail? Human error You may be the most likely cause of hard disk failure. Not surprisingly, human error is the most common cause. Whether it’s installing the computer’s
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
There are so many options for hard drives at the moment that it can be super confusing, slow performing or even money draining if you make uninformed decisions. Not all hard drives are created equally. Although the marketing that’s out there doesn’t always seem to help consumers figure out what’s
In this second article of “getting my new pair of Drobos” series, I’m openly sharing the steps it took to enhance my backup data system from single hard drives to protected storage. Click here to read part one. Picking the right size *for me* The Drobo team had provided me
OK ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to get real. I’m opening up about a delicate issue I know a lot of female photographers are experiencing as well. Yes … I’m talking about “upgrading my data assets.” Openhearted confession I’ll put my cards on the table: I’ve been rocking my own
This is what it looks like at my desk. And I know yours probably looks like it, too — although you’d never admit it publicly. Well, I am! And I’m showing how it’s possible to be efficient while enjoying our messy office when our data is perfectly sorted! God bless
We store our digital lives on hard drives for the most part. This series of articles covers everything you want to know about hard drives, their care and best practices. What is in a hard drive? It’s been said that the beginning is a very good place to start. And
Plugable’s USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 to M.2 SSD enclosure has been my favorite hard drive to carry around because of its ease of use and installation, size and speed. The flexibility of being able to choose what size SSD you want inside makes this one of the best hard drive options available
