Best way to store digital photos

[JOEYGREEN]

Over the last few years we've accumulated hundreds of precious digital photos and have them on cds, some on a couple of memory sticks and some just saved on the pc. Can someone advise how or what I should use to store them all together. Is it just a case of getting a memory stick with a large memory or could I use something else? Where's cheapest to get one if so? Thanks in advance. J

[Mosaic]

I'd also be interested in views on this subject. At present most of ours are on a secondary hard drive on the desktop pc, and I'm considering getting a portable hard drive to use as backup.
I wouldn't keep the only copy of my photos on a pen drive - too easily mislaid.

[Euphemia]

My daughter had her photos stored on my portable hard drive but it gave up the ghost. Was I popular...

[Old_Geezer]

IMO the best way to store them is in more than one place, possibly on more than one medium, with regular checks to see if any photo files have corrupted yet.

Don't put all your eggs into the one basket. I've had more than one flash drive go corrupt.

[Zeuhl]

External hard drives are now high capacity and inexpensive when bought online. Check your overall capacity need, add some and then buy at least two of them

I would copy pics to at least two of them and keep them in different places. And remember to keep updating these archives with all new photos -

which reminds me ......
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[SlackAlice]

All my photo's, video's, documents are stored on the main drive (C) where they form part of Windows backup. They are also stored again on to an External Drive. About monthly intervals I also burn them all to CD or DVD.

Memory sticks are not really reliable enough for permanent storage. I've had a couple of memory sticks go 'bottoms up' for no apparent reason.

[jno]

I keep mine on my computer (had some extra memory added), plus I back them up onto a hard drive kept by the computer, and onto another hard drive kept in another room. Memory sticks are rather fragile (come to that, it wouldn't be a great idea to drop an external hard drive on the floor). CDs don't last forever either. Main thing, I think, is to have more than one copy in case anything goes wrong.

[tamborine]

Open a Yahoo or Facebook site & load up your photos; they're safest in the virtual world.