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What do you use to save your photos on? (that's not a CD)

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ilikeyoursleeves · 28/02/2009 22:55

I've been spending the whole might trying to save loads of photos etc on my computer to CD's but there's so much data that I have been using loads of CD's and it's a faff cos I'm uploading them by month and some months are full of data due to having videos on them too and won't all load onto one CD. CD's only have 700mb, so is there anything else I can use with a bigger capacity to save? Thanks!

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KatyMac · 28/02/2009 22:56

A USB memory stick?

KatyMac · 28/02/2009 22:58

like this?

gemmummy · 28/02/2009 22:59

buy an external hard drive?

ilikeyoursleeves · 28/02/2009 23:03

d'oh! I hadn't even thought about memory sticks. How many MB are in a GB?

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xfabba · 28/02/2009 23:04

external USB disk drive for me too - Maxtor one, can get them in PC World or cheaper online - like a massive USB stick.

Then store it in the car after monthly backup from PC in case of housefire.

xfabba · 28/02/2009 23:05

1000

xfabba · 28/02/2009 23:05

plus can save to an online account like flickr for another offsite copy.

KatyMac · 28/02/2009 23:06

1000mb is 1GB I think so you would get 5.5 CD's on a 4gb stick

Hard drives are much bigger 250gb so 350 odd CD's but about £50-£60 from Tesco

KatyMac · 28/02/2009 23:09

or this which is 4 times as big

They take less time than CD's too

ilikeyoursleeves · 28/02/2009 23:19

I might invest in a hard drive then but they are quite pricey. I'm scared of losing all my photos of DS!

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brokenrecord · 28/02/2009 23:39

DVDs are bigger - 4gb. You could use those if your PC will write to them till you get a hard drive.

Scoops · 28/02/2009 23:41

Although memory sticks can lose their data under certain circumstances (e.g. strong magnetic fields), I've never had a problem, and they are so cheap you can keep a couple in different locations.
I have had lots of trouble with cd's that won't work, and external hard disks are similar to the internal hard drive, so if they fail you can still lose your data.

ilikeyoursleeves · 28/02/2009 23:41

Thanks all, I just bought a 500gb hard drive from Amazon, I had a £25 gift voucher for there so it only cost me £23! That will hold tons plus all our videos, now I will just be nervous about losing / breaking the hard drive!

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Scoops · 28/02/2009 23:47

It's ok, not that likely really, more making the point that there isn't really a definitive method. Some people don't bother to back up by any method and sadly lose everything.

gigglewitch · 28/02/2009 23:54

a spare hard drive.

Am married to a Paid-Up-Geek

PurpleOne · 01/03/2009 02:52

i use facebook. least my photos are safe!

a hard drive crash is fine as long as my photos are off the pc and stored on a web server somewhere. if I lost my pics, i don't know what i'd do....

brokenrecord · 01/03/2009 09:37

Just to confirm - you really should have two copies as hard drives can fail - if you are keeping them on your pc and backng up to your new hard drive that is pretty secure, though as someone has pointed out, copies offsite are a good idea in case of fire.

xfabba · 01/03/2009 18:45

this is what we do but store the hard drive in the car when we remember in case of fire.

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