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