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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.
The most important items I store digitally are the memories I have captured via photos and videos. They represent a time and place in my life that I hope to keep and share for a long time.
Wow, so many comments so far, let me test my luck. My most important things to backup would be the pictures.
I need something for my growing library of tutorials that is accessable from all my devices at home.
pictures of my family :)
Memories (photos), music & movies is my world! Therefore I'm always needing more space for storage. (",)
Definitely the most important to me are my photos and art I've created as well as photos of my fiance and puppy!
Pictures, pictures and more pictures. Not that there can be too many, what causes me issues are the file sizes are so large . I can only get a few backup created before I am out of space again.
A very common theme among the comments, and one which is certainly true for me is that the most important thing to back up is your photos of family and friends. All of my photos serve as memories and documentation of my life.
I back up copies of my photos of my daughters. Much of their childhood is preserved in photos on my hard drive and on disc. It would crush me to lose these memories.
The last photoset of my late grandfather with the whole clan, but we lost it since I stored it in a substandard flash drive.
It is really simply. I store there photos from/of clients. This is the most important thing, more important than family photos (most taken on the phone uploaded to google photos).
The most important things I back up:
1) My photos, including scans of slides, negatices and prints of my family going back nearly 100 years.
2) My HUGE music collection (over 5 TB)
3) The videos that I shoot with my camcorder
It might sound very basic, but the most important things I store are my clients' files, and my documents from university, which I recently completed. The latter might seem strange, but after hard years of study in uni, the blood, sweat and tears... and knowing that folks who have attended have been told AFTER they graduate that they hadn't handed in an assignment? And can't get their degree because of it? Including years of them 'miscalculating' my accounts. I keep every scrap of every file to prevent these things from happening. In a way, it helped prepare me for the 'real' world as well.
I would be backing up family photos, financial records, photo and audio projects, and archives of some reference material.
I organize all my photos and vidoe I love to have more storage space
Really need another backup external storage system! Most important are financial documents, digital photos, and digital videos.
I have scanned over 5,000 prints, slides, and negatives spanning 5 generations plus over 10,000 digital images many of which are of my four children and eight grandchildren. It is the people pics that are the most important. This storage solution would help put my wife at ease as I have finally pitched the boxes and boxes of photo books. We need an actual storage plan.
I scan and store historic photographic images, the originals will not last forever but hopefully the digital copies will.
I have many family photos that I would hate to lose so I need a reliable backup option.
I've got 1.3TB of pictures and videos of random dogs pooping at the park. Would be a shame to lose them all.
My god-daughter is a special needs child who competes in pageants for disabled girls. The most precious pictures I have are the ones of her & all of her friends having fun. Their smiles make everything worthwhile.
I take photos and videos of my children and family all the time. I need a nice backup solution to make sure that I do not lose these most important images. This sounds like the perfect solution. With this I can make sure that my most valuable data (photos, and videos) are never lost. Once gone they can never be replaced. :(
I'd backup everything, starting with my pictures that are in Lightroom. This is a great option to have.
Photo and video files, along with work documents.
Photos and videos of family and friends as well as video/photos from shorts, features and BTS.
Personal photos and videos of course, but documents and creative work as well. I do duplicate and archive all my work, not only the most important ones, but this makes the process long and troublesome sometimes.
I lost EVERYTHING. I mean everything. Every single photo I had taken over 10 years, because TWO hard drives failed simultaneously. Photos from all my world travels, friends, family, some now gone from this earth forever. Please help me to never have this happen again. The preservation of photographs is not just the photograph, but of memories, moments, of my life. When I'm an old man I want to be able to look back and recall my life. Please make this possible.
i have never deleted a single file in my life :) you never know when you'll need that raw
last year someone break into my house and still everything i had.. good thing i keep 2 offline disks at my parents place
the most valuable thing i backup is RAW photos of my family or clients and the edit of these photos. i use lightroom to photoshop in my workflow so the TIF files gonna be usually big. recently i begin to archive my photos on DVDs . so MYCLOUD mirror is going to give a large space to archive my work.
The most valuable files are my RAW pictures and RAW footage I shot for artistic projects
I would back up all of my photos I take on my adventures and portrait sessions
For my business it would be client work...Weddings, family sessions, etc...But if I'm being honest, the MOST important thing would be my own personal & family photos. Those are priceless to me.
For me the most important thing are my images of my family and our family trips. I also store all my landscape and cityscape images.
For over 12 years, since my son was born, I have been taking photos of the family, at home, traveling, school and other activities. Tens of thousands of photos, as I basically shoot everything.
The most important photos I back up are my travel pictures. I have a terrible memory but show me a picture and I can remember the story of the picture and what happened!
My most treasured photos are my travel photos. They serve as great mementos of my experiences as well as the precious time spent with awesome companions.
The most important things to back up are our family's photos, which capture great memories and moments in time. Photos taken by my children when they were young are special, giving a glimpse and reminder of what was important to a child.
All the pics and videos I capture are important and I do need somewhere to store that now as my 1TB drive is getting full
As I begin my journey to turn my hobby into a career, all of my personal work and clients photos are the most important thing I have and need backed up.
Quite a coincidence I see this today. My last Drobo died this week (thank God) I'm would never do that customer support system ever again. This was the system I was looking at as a consideration for the move forward replacements.
I have 2 WD drive in my Think Tank game roller I take to game to dump and re-dump at home, weird thing is (I shouldn't say this out loud) they've never had a hiccup in 5 years of running them. And the diag software for these drives is pretty good too for checking their health etc..
Used an off-brand drive lost all my files, should have got one of these guys! It would be awesome!
I compile family photos and organize them by year and month, and also by event, going through to scan and upload old, traditional photos for our family, and keeping a running collection of newer photos. Photo albums are fine and all, but they're not easily shareable, and can get lost or damaged, when kept at one person's home.
My grandfather has been keeping family records, which I've been digitizing, as well.
While all of these things are currently safe on my own hard drive, and while I try to sync them to online cloud providers, it would be great to have a personal cloud to store and host them from. My intention is to centralize and retain our family's memories and documents, so that they're easily accessible and never lost.
Travel photos and all the photos I put a lot of post work into
The most important items I backed up are my photos of my first trip with my girlfriend, in Europe. These are really meaningful souvenirs of great adventurous, gastronomic, unforgettable-landscape moments!
The most important thing i store are photo's for clients, mail backups and all important paperwork.. But since i don't live in North America i'm not eligible for this contest :'(
I wish WD would do this for Europe as well.
My family photos!!
And my work photos of course
The most important being my nephew's pictures of when they were babies along with family and my wildlife b&w photos.
Along with storing master Raw files and the edits from 2 DSLR cameras, I also have been archiving my families photo albums in hopes of preserving them before they degrade.
The hard drives in my system are most important for backing up the things that are too large for cloud backup (rural area, slow internet), namely RAW files and edited TIFFs. Hundreds of thousands of photos are no joke to organize!
I often don't back up simple shoots with models, friends, etc. But I ALWAYS back up engagement sessions, bridal portraits, weddings, etc. Basically any shoot that I could not do over gets backed up right away!