How do you store your memory cards?
Mar 11, 2021 23:25:24 #
I have only 2 cards which reside in my D7200. When one fails I'll buy another but until then...
Mar 12, 2021 20:45:29 #
DelRae
Loc: Oregon
johngault007 wrote:
Or on your computer. It's not a 100% necessary step unless the camera is not able to read the card.
Mar 13, 2021 07:34:54 #
UTMike wrote:
I have many memory cards (I do not trust any digital storage alone). I keep them in a box, in labeled sleeves. Does anyone have another system? I was thinking about something in a large loose leaf notebook, but I do not know how I would set up the holders for the cards.
This is similar to what I have used in the past, seems like what you are seeking.
https://smile.amazon.com/Clear-File-Binders-Archival-Safe-Plastic/dp/B000099SIK/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Clear+notebook+slide+storage+pages&qid=1615638769&sr=8-2
Mar 13, 2021 07:55:02 #
KLambar
Loc: New Jersey
See link as to what I store my SD cards: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H2S97DT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Mar 13, 2021 08:11:36 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I have only 2 cards which reside in my D7200. When one fails I'll buy another but until then...
Mar 13, 2021 08:36:20 #
juan_uy wrote:
If you store in memory cards, you are indeed trusting digital storage, and probably one of the worst options...
Mar 13, 2021 08:54:31 #
chrissybabe wrote:
...I do have complete control over the few copies I do keep on hard drives locally...
No you don't. The building where you keep these drives could burn down.
Surely as a retired IT professional you realize that cloud storage is but one of a multitude of ways that data is properly backed up. It's not a single storage solution for a primary data archive. It's backup at a remote location, safe from whatever disasters may befall your home or office locally...fire, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, war. Proper backup requires remote storage in addition to local.
To go on and on bad mouthing "cloud" storage does no good service to the many untrusting folks who rely on inadequate local only backup because of superstition and misinformation.
The cloud is but one link in a proper backup chain. If you're not using it, you're not properly backed up.
Mar 13, 2021 08:56:43 #
Bayou wrote:
OR - I can "store" them in my camera bag, ready to use. That's where they live.
It depends on one's interpretation of "store" doesn't it.
Could be-
"How do you store your memory cards for archive?"
"How do you store your memory cards when using them?"
A couple of extra words MAY make things a bit less confusing...
Especially for people who's second, third, or fourth language is English.
So, how do you store your cards?
Mar 13, 2021 09:08:48 #
UTMike wrote:
I have many memory cards (I do not trust any digital storage alone). I keep them in a box, in labeled sleeves. Does anyone have another system? I was thinking about something in a large loose leaf notebook, but I do not know how I would set up the holders for the cards.
Loose leaf: Stop in a store where they sell "stuff" for coincollectors. They should have plastic "pages" with a number of pockets to store coins, including silver dollar sized. Take a memory card with you to make sure it fits.
You could put a paper label with the card, or put a label in the pocket beside the card.
Recipe cards are perfect for this: thin enough to not make the page thicker, stiff enough to easily slide into and out of a pocket. You'd just have to cut them to size yourself.
Mar 13, 2021 09:26:43 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
johngault007 wrote:
I think I'm about to make a lot of people cringe p... (show quote)
I do the same. I consider the card a part of the camera and remove it only to move images from it to my PC for PP and storage, the original and PP’d PC images are backed up to other storage. The spare card I carry is in case I fill a card while out with the camera.
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Mar 13, 2021 10:05:07 #
Bayou wrote:
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The cloud is but one link in a proper backup chain. If you're not using it, you're not properly backed up.
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The cloud is but one link in a proper backup chain. If you're not using it, you're not properly backed up.
Properly is relative, as is "best". Some people have five backups.
I don't.
Mar 13, 2021 12:08:32 #
DWU2 wrote:
To me, memory cards were not meant to be, and aren't, a good long-term storage medium. So, the cards I have that aren't in the cameras live in an Altoids box, while I store my photos on a high-capacity hard drive, and back up to another high-capacity hard drive.
Altoids box - good idea!! I had a facetious response of:
On a static free work surface, wearing a grounded wrist strap I carefully wrap it in gold foil and then using grounded metal forceps place it in a grounded air tight metal container .... Ha Ha Ha.
I like your way better --- I just throw mine in a drawer with caps on of course!!
BUT - You are right - I looked it up and they were never meant for long term storage. CD's or DVD's are better for that. I do that plus several attached, NAS and portable harddrives.
The only ones I've ever had fail are a couple of suspiciously cheap 1T ones.
Mar 13, 2021 12:59:32 #
JeffR
Loc: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
UTMike wrote:
Good advice, Bill. I confess that I do have my photos in two different external hard drives, but I am concerned about storage failure because I have had three LaCie external hard drives crash. Your point on deterioration is good, so I will probably change my ways. Even an old dog can learn new tricks.
Unless they all three crashed on the same day, that shouldn't present a problem (other than the cost of a replacement drive, of course). Perhaps you should try a different brand for your next hard drive. I've had excellent luck with Seagate. I've got 8 or 9 that I've been using for years and haven't lost one yet. These are the 2 TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim model at around $69 on sale. I've also had good luck with a Toshiba drive that gets most of my day to day files. The only drives I've ever had fail were Western Digital. PS, I grew up in Salt Lake City, and enjoy seeing your pictures of my old home town. Please keep posting!
Mar 13, 2021 13:48:13 #
Memory cards use as a long term medium is risky at best. Same was true of floppy, 3.5, cd storage. I worked for years as a contract programmer. I learned the hard way. I keep one copy of all RAW files and finished jpg file on my QNAP NAS. From my QNAP server I backup nightly to a commercial site ( currently iDrive). I haven't lost any files since I started this years ago.
Mar 13, 2021 15:34:14 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
Bayou wrote:
No you don't. The building where you keep these d... (show quote)
Yes I do ! It would require 3 buildings in different locations, and cities, to burn down.
I don't necessarily decry cloud storage but there are those who push cloud storage (with the same fervour as Mac advocates do for Macs) as being the real solution to others laziness. Without pointing out the many downsides of cloud storage. And there are just as many downsides as there are with local storage. A combination of both might be able to be configured to minimise downsides but you can't ignore them -
slow, takes a long time to restore data, requires a fast internet connection, in a lot of circumstances too hard to configure and keep working for many people, same issue with buildings burning down, subject to infrastructure damage, totally invisible to you so you have little control, not suitable for many locations, additional costs to your necessary local storage, limits to amount able to be stored unless you pay a lot of money, and others.
I bet most cloud storage advocates have never given a moments thought to some of these.
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