Storing Your Digital Assets: A Practical Guide for Photographers
Posted by: Mr. Tech in Backup, Digital Photography, Hard Drives & Storage, Mac, Small Business Corner, WindowsTerms like “data storage”, “backup”, and “disaster recovery planning” used to be primarily associated with pocket-protector-wearing nerds who inhabit the cubicles and refrigerator-like datacenters of Information Technology departments in large corporations. (I’m allowed to cast such libelous aspersions since I myself transitioned from an exceedingly Kafkaesque, corporate IT background into the world of digital photography.)
But now that photography has largely gone digital, photographers are finding themselves in the position of having to make decisions on how to store, organize, and secure the lifeblood of their business — digital images – whether in RAW format, as JPEGs, TIFFs, or retouched Photoshop files.
While many different computer programs exist that can organize, manipulate, and retrieve digital images (applications like iPhoto, Adobe Lightroom, Aperture, and iView Media Pro, to name a few), the focus of this article is the physical media used to store and back up this data, regardless of what applications are used. (more…)
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