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How do you store photos?

  • 05-05-2019 07:40PM
    #1
    16thelegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭


    I’ve about 160gb of photos on my laptop?

    Just wondering what’s the best way
    The cloud? External hard drive? Or both


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  • #2
    wexfordman2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭wexfordman2


    16thelegend wrote: »
    I’ve about 160gb of photos on my laptop?

    Just wondering what’s the best way
    The cloud? External hard drive? Or both

    Google photos app.


  • #3
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Two external hard drives. To be sure, to be sure!


  • #4
    s8n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭s8n


    print them all


  • #5
    16thelegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭16thelegend


    s8n wrote: »
    print them all

    15,000 I could probably cut 2000 off that


  • #6
    16thelegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭16thelegend


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Two external hard drives. To be sure, to be sure!

    What type of external hard drive do you use?

    Little bit worried about external hard drives breaking over a long period of time


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  • #7
    wexfordman2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭wexfordman2


    16thelegend wrote: »
    What type of external hard drive do you use?

    Little bit worried about external hard drives breaking over a long period of time

    Seriously, Google photos is the place to store em


  • #8
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,084 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    16thelegend wrote: »
    What type of external hard drive do you use?

    Little bit worried about external hard drives breaking over a long period of time
    External hard-drive should be a backup, not your only copy. If the data is anyway important, the minimum should be a 3-2-1 strategy: 3 copies, 2 local, 1 offsite. For a home user, that usually means one copy on pc/laptop, one copy on an external hard-drive, and one copy on Google Photos/OneDrive/Dropbox etc. Anything less than that is just begging for data loss

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