

That means one drive at a friend or family member’s house, another in safe, fire-proof storage, and one buried near the tree out back. Or you could take on the video editor’s rule of keeping your important data on 3 different drives in separate locations. Old, spinning drives at least have some physical burn of your photo data, so you may have better luck for long term backup with something like the WD MyBook (which we’ve used for years). Trust us, we’ve amassed a lot of media over the years, and our older SSD drives and USB sticks are already starting to ghost If gone unused for a couple years, flash memory has a tendency to simply disappear on you – poof, ghosting where there used to be data. But you can’t depend on USB sticks and SSD drives. If you’re like most people, the relief of unlimited digital photos has taken on a whole new type of anxiety: what to do with all your photos?īacking your thousands upon thousands of photos – and probably videos too – feels like a growing pressure as your phone and memory cards get filled up.
