External hard drive failed. It's where I put the photos for my camera. Most are backed up online, but a few years ago our DSL service was so bad, I got out of the habit of backing up online. Here's hoping Seagate can recover a lot of them.
I have had reason to download images from a couple of places where I backed up photos online and the results were less-than-satisfactory. (The images were sampled down or the video would not play.) So I'm searching for a new place to reliably back up photos online.
Meanwhile, with so many paperless statements and records with credit card and financial services companies, I need to back up those documents, so this is what I'm doing with these thumb/USB drives, while my HDD goes back to Seagate…
BTW, there was no warning whatsoever that anything was amiss. The drive wouldn't mount and be recognized by the OS (Win10).
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Yikes! I save my photos to an external hard drive, also. I "try" to back them up to Shutterfly, but that means they have to go as jpg files. But at least they are "safe" and I can print them and also just go to their website and "see" them.
Hope Seagate is successful!!
@thewatersphotos I used to shoot both raw and jpg, but found that I did not—at the time—want to sink the time into editing raw files, so I only shoot in jpg now. (Also took a lot longer to download both formats to my laptop.)
When we have photos “printed,” we now get canvases rather than photo enlargements. The canvas medium means that razor-sharp images are not needed … even for the 30×40" canvas in our kitchen, which was printed from a scanned dSLR print from 2008.
I may need some of those old raw-format files to replace the jpg's that were not recoverable from the HDD failure. I haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet; many or most photos seem to have been recovered, but it certainly isn't 100%.
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Hope Seagate is successful!!
When we have photos “printed,” we now get canvases rather than photo enlargements. The canvas medium means that razor-sharp images are not needed … even for the 30×40" canvas in our kitchen, which was printed from a scanned dSLR print from 2008.
I may need some of those old raw-format files to replace the jpg's that were not recoverable from the HDD failure. I haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet; many or most photos seem to have been recovered, but it certainly isn't 100%.