Photography hobby have evolved through the years. My wife have a Nikon D40x digital camera. Most of the time she brings it along with her to make use on every opportunity that comes. The photos taken are normally packed with cute kids, celebrations, party, special occasions, and more. Thus, she have a big collection of digital photo.

Storing or protecting digital photos is important especially when it’s a labor of love. Some of the photos she have is printed on photo paper. One could actually print or store them electronically on a web space or either an external hard disk which is readily available on sale from IT shops.

She normally store all of these on an external hard drive and only printed a few now and then. I could just imagine in the old days where we need to keep the film, but today we have digital photo frames to make alive the static photo images. External drives would be the best portable solution in keeping digital photos.

Having a big capacity external hard drive of 1TB would be more than enough to store all the images. Seagate FreeAgent Pro 1 TB which connects via USB 2.0/ eSATA/ FireWire is a good choice as it has fast read times and high-speed performance with 7200 RPM speed. Thus, sharing of photos could be done automatically and it’s also protected from unauthorized access with encryption.

It would be a disaster if we keep the most treasured digital photos in one storage media. We have heard computers that stores the only copies of special events in our life suddenly fails. The best thing to do is to store copies in different locations as possible. Thus, an external drive is very useful in this case.

I have tried storing some images on CD or DVD, but observed that some of it are gone and inaccessible after 3 years depending on the environment condition. Online storage could be a safe option of storing all the photos of memorable occasions like Flicker or Photo bucket. In my experience storing photo images on external hard drive would be the best solution.