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Where should i store my photos.
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Now that i have my new EOS 50D up and shooting, what should i do with all the photos i will accumulate over time. At present i am downloading them to CD-R, and that usually holds around 350 images coming from my point and shoot, But is this the right way to go, should i be doing it another way? should i be reducing the images before i put them on CD, or should i be Putting them on CD at all..!! I don’t have an external hard drive, just the one in my windows vista PC. Any advice here would be gratefully appreciated.
ANOTHER Question from IRIS :roll:
An external (or internal) drive is the only way to go to be honest. Sheldon here on the site sells them
and I’m sure will do you a good price.Prices have come down alot in recent times, so you’ll find that it that terribly expensive for what you’re
getting.Hope that helps… :)
You can get them very cheap on ebay too
Hi Iris, definitely an external drive is the way to go, it encourages you
to sift through the rubbish and just save the keepers, well it does me anyways :)
Good housekeeping on a regular basis stops them building up into a massive
job that gets bigger and bigger the longer you leave it.I agree with previous posts, they have got so reasonable for massive storage
capacities, and nothing against ebay at all but it is nice to support our sponsors if we can so check them out first :)Thanks Markst33 but i see that one for sale on e.bay is being listed as “Refurbished” don’t know if that’s good or not when it comes to storing your valuable photos.
i Nearly forgot, Thanks mark and thanks Shutterbug. if anyone has any storage for sale let me know.
but sometimes its hard to support your own when the prices are so high. i bought my Canon EOS 50D with 28-135mm lens for $1234, hand delivered from the states, in euros that’s €880. i would have bought it here but the deals were not to be had.I know what you mean. I saved €150 by buying my Nikon D50 4 years ago on ebay from the USA against what I would have paid for it here and that was AFTER it had been seized by customs and I had to pay €89 to release it. And I bought my Nikon D200 3 months ago from England with 12k actuations for €587 and the price included, Camera body, Battery grip, 2 batteries and delivery. I was pricing it around town here and Berminghams were selling them for €599 body only and when you asked them for the number of actuations they said that there was no way of telling this without sending it back to Nikon :shock:
Personally I wouldn’t purchase a refurbished hard disk, best to buy new from someone/place
you can trust. They’re your photos after all :)I wasn’t pushing a refurbished HD. 8) To be honest I did not even read the full ad. I was just showing an example of the deals to be had on eBay :)
Iris get and external h/d in fact they are so cheap at the mo buy 2
I learned the hard way and lost a years worth of work
I bought western digital 1tb for around 70 stg
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/959744
CathalThanks Cathal, that looks the biz. Did you actually buy it in England, or did you have it posted over to you and what was the p&p cost, can you remember.
It might be obvious, but I’ll say it anyway, just in case you are not aware. It is good practice to split large hard drives into several partitions. This in effect gives you several seperate smaller hard drives. If one drive fails, you can still use the others. This saved me a while ago as I had a 500gig external drive divided into 2x250gig drives. I duplicated all the files on both. Thank God I did, because I reformatted and began overwriting on one accidently before I realised what I had done. :oops: All files were safe on the other. :D
Thanks Miki g, i didn’t know that and don’t know how its done. When i get a new hard drive i might ask for your help in guiding me through the process.
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Thanks Cathal, that looks the biz. Did you actually buy it in England, or did you have it posted over to you and what was the p&p cost, can you remember.
Iris I reserved mine on line and collected it in store(Derry city)it is only a half hour drive from me
but pc world have irish stores also I’m sure there is one near you,but reserve it on line as I found this cheaperLike most things in life, all external drives are not the same!
To store and use large volumes on an external drive you’ll need a drive that has a good (fast) transfer rate between the PC and the drive. The rate at which the disk spins its components is also important and varies. Otherwise you may be sitting there for ages while the copying happens. Normally, the cheaper the drive, the slower the rates, so it may be worth considering adding a few bob to the budget. Definitely compare the specs.
Also check what protocol it uses to link to the PC as these determine the rate, USB, USB2, Firewire, SCSI, etc.
Regards.
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