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The winners of the contest have been chosen. Congratulations to:
Joshua Jeppesen
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Ian Johns
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One of the most important aspects of our work as photographers is the storage of our photos and videos. Not only do our businesses regularly depend on our images and videos remaining safe until final delivery, many of us keep years of personal memories backed up for safe keeping. A few weeks ago, our own Alex Cooke wrote a review on one of the most dependable ways to back up what's important to you, the new My Cloud Mirror 2. As a follow up to his article, Fstoppers and WD would like make sure you have the option to keep your back ups secure by giving away three My Cloud Mirror 2 units. Check out the details below.
When it comes to backing up files, all of us place importance on different things. I personally have hundreds of thousands of wedding images I've taken for clients over the years stored on multiple hard drives. The story of these images show my progress as a photographer, and also guarantee that in a dire situation, my clients can retain access to their pictures. Outside of my business, I place the most value on the many travel pictures I've taken in over a dozen countries with my wife. These are some of my most treasured moments and memories in my life. I love to look back on them from time to time to remember the many rich life experiences we've shared together.
What are the most important items you store digitally? Fstoppers and WD would like to hear from you and give you the chance to safely store the precious aspects of your lives with a new 4TB My Cloud Mirror (Gen 2).
To be eligible to receive one of the three giveaway units, simply leave a comment below this article describing the most important items you back up. Fstoppers will randomly select three winners from the comments to receive a 4TB My Cloud Mirror (Gen 2). For a full list of sweepstakes rules and eligibility, click HERE.
I got into photography to document my life as a young man pursuing his dream in the hopes of one day sharing that experience with my children. After a while I began incorporating pictures of my wife yoga practice in the mix as a way to expand my portfolio. Now we have a large following on social media and have been documenting our travels for the past three years. What most important to me is that I have a lasting body of work to leave to my family one day. I never got that from my parents and either did my wife. We both come from broken families and don't really know what its like to see both of our parents in love and enjoying their lives. This hard-drive would help me preserve this memories for years to come.
For me the most important things are the photos of my clients, Now I need a big and secure storage for the big files from my canon 5Ds.
this is the digital world! much pictures = much storage
I have a large collection of comic books that I store. At 30-60mb per comic, storage goes quick.
I'm rethinking all my backup routine... and this would be great for 2nd backup :) and distant access... :)
I backup the thousands of pictures I have taken of family gatherings, vacations, trips, birthday, holidays, parties and all the other amazing memories of my life.
I try to store ALL my work digitally via backup hard drive. Footage I'm working on currently, images, docs, the works. I try and use the local drive for OS and programs only, and use a Mirror RAID for everything else.
Amazing Price! Go Fstoppers. I spend almost as much time backup up Tons of Wedding, Fashion and Event Photos. Edited JPG's and Specific Raw files. If I win, it will save me hours, sorting through external drives, slow copies and trying to find things... :) Thnx for the opportunity
A high quality backup hard drive like this would be a better place for me to store all my digital data. As a student, I have not yet been able to buy a drive, so my personal photos, professional photos, PORTFOLIO, school work, resume, and countless other essential documents exist for me in only one physical location: my built in laptop drive. They are also backed up by the cloud, but this method is of no use to me in my Ian style of photography; off the grid and out in the wilderness. Having this drive would allow me to back up all my life work, my achievements, my goals, my client's work, my ideas, and my portfolio and resume.
I would like to backup all my photos since i started shooting digital with my Nokia 7650, lots of memories!
I store photos from events that can never be reshot. I've promised many couples who are getting married that I am solely responsible for ensuring their memories are safe and will not be lost. That's a little scary. I need the safest and most secure storage.
Photos and videos for friends and family.
I usually back up all my photos (raw) + lightroom catalog + video rushs.
My most valued item stored on your hard drives is the photos/videos of my children/family.
I would say client images but its personal/home video I capture that is most important to me.
Backing up memories of my family and my trips are of the utmost importance for me. I currently use 2TB (1TB working + 1TB backup) for personal work and I'm running out of space. I've actually been looking and been on the fence about getting the My Cloud Mirror. Winning this would make that decision much easier.
Family photos, I could get by without everything else but those could never be replaced.
I am a whole lot OCD. I back up everything multiple ways. I back up thousands of photos, financial records, and documents. I have lost a hard drive and I feel that its a necessity to back up everything.
I'm a professional photographer and there's always a need for a good and reliable means of backing up my data. I've been an unfortunate victim of a data dump causing me to lose a year's worth of work so I know how important it is to have a good means to saving my precious data. Since then I'm always on the lookout for something reliable.
everything! but primarily photos and videos
There are files from my school years stored somewhere on my hard drives... Pictures and such. I would like to look through them some day.
Memories!!!
All of my photos are saved on a my 1TB samsung T1 and timecapsule. :) I had mulitple SSD and HDD dying in time as I travel a world a lot and am constantly in a movable environment with unreliable currents to make sure all of my work is properly saved. This is a big thing for me. :)
The images of my animals - my dog and cats
All my videos from travelling and the pictures from work definitely need to be stored in this drive safely!
If it would be possible, I'd save my experiences and impressions from travelling. Till somebody invents it, I'll be saving at least pictures and videos from my journeys :)
Photos and videos of my kids, of course.
But also photos and videos of all the kids in my community. I am the unofficial photographer and videographer for our school and community events. I videotape school plays, concerts, and recitals. I do theater head shots and costume shots. I photograph birthday parties, ballroom dancing competitions, presidential fairs, and pretty much any other school event that is worth sneaking out of work for.
So I am backing up not only my own memories, but also my community's collective memories.
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My kids! I learned the hard way. I had a 'backup' drive end up failing and I lost most of the first 2 years and newborn pics of both my kids. Yuck.
I back-up all my photos and I am always paranoid that I will loose them. I am right now trying to find some missing files
The most important photos I have are of my family when I was younger. Nothing can replace those photos.
Most important things I backup are my photos, my insurance documents, and music.
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The most important photos I back-up are of my grandson. I don't get to see him very often and I want to preserve those memories, not only for my wife and I, but him as well. I want to be able to show him that my wife and I do/did love him very much, contrary to what he is or has been told.
I back up my life, that simple.
I have about 10 years of shooting digital under my belt, and losing that would be crushing. There's nothing more important to me than keeping my work cataloged.
Photos of friends and family are the most important to me. One of my friends passed unexpectedly, and all the photos I had saved that seemed trivial and unimportant were suddenly very precious.
Naturally, I would back up all of my photos. ALL of them. Even the old slides and film from the dark ages.
My backup disk just died a month ago, been uploading to a cloud until I can get a new one...
The most important stuff on there must be family pictures, travel, the photos I really like aswell of course
All my photos are important, that includes client, personal and family (same as personal). Even more so now that my girlfriends mother and my father both passed away earlier this year. I have been been going through all my photos of my dad and family both digitally shot and scanned and I'm so grateful that I can relive those moments from the past. It's extremely important to have copies or backups of your photos and video!
The most important items I backup regularly are the usual photos, videos and documents. Photos and videos are normally filed by date and documents are according to their origin.
I have to maintain at least 2 backup copies of my files, one is with me and the other is offsite. Most of my digital files stay in my laptop.
Having this extra hard drive would be very helpful. May we all have this much needed spacious WD hard drive.
Cheers!!!
I've been a father for little over a year now to the thick-thighed powerhouse affectionately referred to as 'Chubby Son' (I am holding him in my profile picture). Ever since he was born I have adamantly captured every moment I can, every little mannerism he has at each stage of development and I lay in bed at night or sit at my desk at work in between edits watching videos of him because of how happy he's made me. I struggle a lot of times knowing that these little moments will never be coming back. Every night I tuck him in I find that he is just slightly longer and older looking while the time isn't too far off where he will be referred to as 'Thad' rather than our more affectionate moniker. Mine and my wife's phones are constantly running out of memory, at which point I upload the files to Dropbox and download them to two hard drives. Even then, hitting the 'delete' button on my phone on each of these videos is still a struggle; I would be absolutely heartbroken if these moments, some 2 TB worth, were lost forever. The cloud can be volatile, external hard drives faulty, but that's the best that I have. To back up my memories on a device like this would bring enormous peace of mind.
My most important items to backup are my pictures of my three boys. Years ago I stupidly only had one copy of the photos and lost some but luckily recovered most from a hard drive crash.
If your hard drive remains active for 4 hours or longer, contact a physician.
I would take this right over to my parents house and set it up so that every time they have a computer meltdown I don't have to worry about whether or not they still have pictures of the grandkids.
Backing up the photos is essential. I had a disaster with my pictures from the film days - the area they were in flooded! This has made me more sensitive to the importance of backup and having a copy at a different site.
Oh man, back ups are the bain of my digital existence! if only there was an easy, simple way to do! This looks like it could be the solution I've been looking for — and it looks great! Sign me up!
Family photos, all other photos & music.
Definitely my travel and event photography. My greatest fear is losing my life's work, but yet I still don't back up...yikes!!
Personal work wise there are my family images with my growing son, wife and extended family. Professionally I have my commercial editorial and art images to store. My Son is also getting into photography and video and those are priceless to me.
Backing up professional photos and cell phone photos to catalog my travels with my wife and dogs.
I back up the scanned photos and slides that my grandparents took because they are the most important photos I have.