OT. Picture storage sites on the web

Anonymous-0 · Oct 9, 2008

Hey guys, I see many of you posting pictures stored on web sites. I would like to take my pictures off my computer and store them that way. Which sites are good, easy to use and least expensive? I have tons of kids pictures that I would hate to lose if my computer crashed. Are they secure and safe? Should I positively back them up?

Thanks in advance.

Farmall 300 u · Oct 9, 2008

You can buy an IOMEGA USB external 320Gbyte drive for well under a $100 to store or backup all of your pictures. Each week, just copy over your picture folder. Cheap and simple.

Howard H. · Oct 9, 2008

One drawback of many online websites is that they force you to reduce the size of your pictures. In other words, you lose a lot of picture quality - especially if your camera is over 4 megapixel or so.

Plus, in my humble opinion, who is to say any of them might not go under next month - and then where would that leave you??

I'd say the best way right now (cheapest/fastest/longest term storage) would be to burn copies on a CD or DVD and put them in a safe deposit box...

Howard

Steven f/AZ · Oct 9, 2008

I have all my pictures on kodakgallery.com

I don't know how tough it would be to get them back in high quality digital format if my computer were to crash, though. I'm really happy with the prints I've ordered through them.

As far as being able to post photos on message boards such as this, I'm happy with my free Photobucket account.

Howard H. · Oct 9, 2008

Speaking of pictures - here are a few I took the past few days - sort of heavy on sunsets, but they've sure been pretty lately:

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Howard

Steven f/AZ · Oct 9, 2008

*right click, save as*

Thanks for the new desktop backgrounds! Love the one with the old tractor, especially!

Chances R · Oct 9, 2008

Very happy with image event. Price $50 a year and you can have 1500 pictures. Google search engine works well with it so you can sell itemss there also.
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Eric SEI · Oct 9, 2008

I'm scanning all my Dad's slides and any other family pictures and burning CDs and then I am distributing copies to other family members.

Storing off site like you are planning is a good idea, but maintain your own copies. There is no guarantee that they will not lose your files, but the chance that your copy and their copy are lost at the same time is small enough to ignore.

How many times after a fire or tornado do you hear people saying that while they can rebuild, losing their pictures was the worst?

kyhayman · Oct 9, 2008

Most of the online sites severely limit how much stuff you can store. I do commercial photowork and just dont trust anyone to keep my stuff for me, plus I generate way too much stuff. What I do is run a set of mirrored Seagate 120GB drives, 3 for operating and 3 for backup. Just getting ready to upgrade the whole setup here. As to backup, I share the lease on a 200TB server from a company in Texas, they host my website and I upload my raw and finished files onto it once a month or so.

550Doug · Oct 10, 2008

Solid State hard drives are now available for laptops and probably very soon for desktops. This means no moving parts and much faster than a USB memory stick. The only thing that will destroy them would be the EMP from a nuclear type blast, which will kill all electronic equipment anyways.

Photo hard copies still have their advantages.

Good luck

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