- #MEMEO INSTANT BACKUP PURGE DELETED FILES ARCHIVE#
- #MEMEO INSTANT BACKUP PURGE DELETED FILES PROFESSIONAL#
#MEMEO INSTANT BACKUP PURGE DELETED FILES ARCHIVE#
As part of my backup review, I have recently switched to using the NAS grade drives for archive storage where the slower spindle speed and cache isn’t a factor, and a Constellation drive for working directories and my general document storage.
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At time of writing, a Seagate Desktop 4TB (ST4000DM000) was $119.95 on, the NAS grade drive jumps $20 to $139.99, while the Constellation (Enterprise grade) is $169.99. Investing in drives that are designed and built to withstand constant use and higher up-time averages makes sense to anyone who’s data is of critical nature – including photographers. For most of those who are fairly new to photography this is a completely understandable situation.
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If you built your own PC, then you know what’s in it, and there’s a reasonable chance you didn’t shell out 30-50% or more over the consumer grade drives for NAS (Network Attached Storage) grade or Enterprise grade drives. If you bought your computer from a major computer manufacture, it’s almost certain you have a consumer grade drive. Step 1 – buy good drives.Ĭonsumer grade drives are built to a price point. The plan for home or studio should ensure your photos are safe secure for the long haul. You might have been on the road for 10 days, but those photos are sitting on your hard drive for 10 years or more. The majority of the timeline when something can happen to your photos is after you get done with the shoot or the trip, and you’ve got the photos safely home. If you’ve ready my Lightroom Import and Organization tutorial, I’ve already covered some of my import process to help ensure that doesn’t happen (again). The last way photos can commonly be lost is simply by human error – deleting the photos from a single location. While the chance of this type of loss is significantly lower than equipment failure, if your data is in one place, there’s a chance that location could be compromised by theft, flood, fire, etc. Those who edit on-the-go via laptop and external drives at coffee shops between shoots, or such as one recent horror story I recently heard of where a photographer’s studio was broken into and over 10 years of work stolen on various drives from his studio. Unless you do all your editing from inside the fault at Fort Knox, there is a possibility that your equipment will eventually be lost. Simply put, if your data is on one drive, it’s a ticking time bomb that will eventually go off.Įquipment loss, ie, it grows legs and walks off or burned to a crisp, or submerged in a flood, blown away in a tornado, etc. External drives that get knocked around, power surges during electrical storms, the list goes on. On the other hand, personal experience has two drives of very different age from a major manufacture dying in the last 6 months, one drive was less than 6 months old! Not all drive failure is down to bad drives, other causes can be environmental in nature. For some classes and manufactures of drives, that number was SIGNIFICANTLY higher (and has caused serious black eyes for certain manufactures by in large). On average, over the 3 year study period, nearly 5% of the drives failed. Check out this article by published Q3 of 2015: What Can 49,056 Hard Drives Tell Us? Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q3 2015. One is equipment failure, the other is equipment loss.Įquipment failure happens, and in the case of hard drives, the usual media the bulk of your photos will be stored, it can happen at alarming rates. There are two primary was for your images to be lost to you. In hopes that some of you will be able to avoid the loss of cherished memories or client work, I now share the resulting backup plan with you. Over the past few months I have reviewed and greatly improved my own backup plan to ensure the safety of the images I have spent so much time and effort to collect over the years. However, for most of us though, the backup plan starts the moment we pop the card out of the camera and into our computer.
#MEMEO INSTANT BACKUP PURGE DELETED FILES PROFESSIONAL#
This is why some high-end professional cameras actually come with dual card slots, immediate backup right there in the camera. Simply put, in the world of digital photography, one can never have your photos in too many (secure) locations.Īdditionally, you can never get your photos in more than one place too soon. Thankfully, on this particular topic, I’ve been lucky and have learned from the unfortunate misfortunes of friends and fellow photographers. And while in some situations learning things second-hand doesn’t always sink in quickly enough, in other cases simply seeing the fallout is plenty to motivate one to be proactive. There are two ways to learn – by first hand experience, and by learning from other’s experience.