This is one
of the primary reasons I have a DVD burner. My (wifes) photos are not only
on our hard drive, but they are also on optical disc. We have a camera and we
use it all the time, but mainly she is the photographer. She's gotten good and
now we have thousands of files, so we're like a lot of people, what in the
heck would we do if the hard drive crashed? It isn't if a hard drive will crash
it's when.
of Americans said they backed-up their digital photos and videos according to recent research by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Most of the consumers surveyed, who didn't have a backup plan, told the researchers that they weren't even concerned about losing their imaging content and were unaware of the need to archive their digital photos and video. The CEA findings are surprising, since respondents to an earlier Fujifilm survey, found that 97 percent of respondents said they would be distraught if their family photographs were destroyed and 28 percent said their most valued heirloom was a photograph. |
In addition, we coughed up the money for a USB disc tower
and also an inexpensive direct to disc printer. The database function of the
software for the tower is a nice additional plus. With digital cameras, it's
amazing how quickly the pictures add up and soon, it would be very difficult to
find particular ones without this database. Here's a link to Digital Home Canada, for those that wish to read the
entire article.
Source: Digital Home Canada
