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The winners of the contest have been chosen. Congratulations to:
Joshua Jeppesen
Hector Reyes
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 am scanning, retouching and archiving all the families images (some going back 80+ years) digitally. These are precious memories that need to be safe and secure.
"...and live within North America to be eligible for the giveaway" ever considered making a world wide giveaway? There are loads of people outside of the US following Fstoppers that would like to participate in these. I'm starting to digitize my family VHS's and I'd like to store them in a safe place for future generations to see what it was like when we were young.
The most important things I back up to an external HD are my family memories from years gone by, family history info, as well as various business info
Family and travel are so important to me and so are the photos I have of those
The most important photos I back up are ones of my kids... followed by the work I've done for my clients.
Photos, both my own and stock photos I've licensed. Even the best stock photo outlets sometimes remove content and if you don't have it backed up, you've lost your investment. I also manage a few web sites and backing up those files is crucial because starting from scratch is not an option. And finally, and most importantly, I back up my own work. Compositing is fun but trying remember how you created a composite six months ago without the original PSD file is zero fun.
My family photos, mostly raw files.
Yeah. There is not more important think to keep than family memories and specially if is hour children's memories. I always been a photo and video enthusiast and carried both still picture and video camera since I came to this country 18 years ago. Started with video8 and film, upgraded to hi8 and point and shoot and the latest hard disk drive and DSLR. I most have thousands of hours of videos of my three kids an our family and another thousands of still pictures that I would like to transfer and backup. Can't wait to show then to our grandkids when the time comes.
That will always be priority number one.
As both a videographer and photographer, storage is vitally important to me for numerous reasons. Besides backing up my client's projects, I back up vitally important memories I take of my new son as well as archived family photos from several generations. Losing any of this data would be devastating and unfortunately, going from analogue to digital, the odds are higher that loss will happen.
I shoot weddings and keeping client photos securely backed up is extremely important to me. I have been researching different options for backup system and came across this useful post, thanks.
All the pictures I have shot so far are stored only on my computer. If my computer would crash that would be bad!! Fingers crossed for a WD backup solution.
I'd be storing memories of my life, my family, and the work I've done.
I have videos of my 94 year old Grandmother with her peers talking about what life was like in South Louisiana in the 1920s, through the Depression and on to modern times (including their experiences with Facebook)... They are speaking in Cajun French (an archaic version of 1500's French) - a language that is quickly disappearing. I really would hate to lose this footage due to a hard drive malfunction!
My catalog!
My most important images are family ones both of my immediate family and my extended family
I back up all my images so i can see my hopefully successful progress
I am a portrait, lifestyle and occasional wedding photographer based in Nepal. Taking portraits and lifestyle photos is my passion. I recently accidentally deleted my all the 2015 photos from my laptop hard-drive and was out of my mind. But using different recovery tools I was able to regain like 60-70% photos of the photos only. Reading your post and description of My Cloud Mirror 2 I was feeling good from inside that may be in the future I don't have to worry about accidentally deleting my files from laptop coz I would have a full backup of my work in this drive. So, I would love to have this backup system in my desk and save all the memories I have captured in once safe place without worrying of loosing them again.
I have mostly family travel photos and video to backup, along with a number of personal project photos/video.
Since i mainly do nature photography my catalogs can be years of images from special moments in nature and having the option to go through archives to edit photos i didn't have time for previously or to re edit some of my nature shots. having all my photos stored properly is really important. I also take assignments and it is nice to give customers reassurance that the photos are never deleted and if they wish a different type of edit or have lost the photos I can recover them for them =D. Also since I do nature shots people from certain areas might ask if I have more shots from an area that have not been published. =D
Family photos and videos.
I would use it to backup the backups of my backed up images. (Just to be safe) because my images are the most important things I backup.
I am on the Bryant University Swim Team and I make a lot of videos for my universities athletic teams. My most important item I need to be able to store is all the clips of the swim team I get throughout the year. The past academic year alone I captured over 120GB of footage and I would love a more reliable place to store that footage rather than just a portable hard drive.
Everything else we can get back one way or another. But family memories is the one thing that would hurt to lose.
Memories - mine and other peoples!
My photographic memories.
The most important things for me to back up are photos, video files and CG content. There's plenty else, but they take up the most room.
Has the winner been posted yet?
I use a readyNAS, it has 4 drives, mirroring doesn't always work. If one drive has an error, it will mirror the error across.