How do you save your photos?

[SkySpade]

Aside from buying an album or photo box and printing them out, I mean. Do you use CDs, flash drives, a hard disk drive, other means...? What ways are best if you're trying a cheap route? What do you not suggest?

Thanks in advance.

[filemanager]

I backup my photos to 2 external hard drives, and to DVD.

[sybren]

I make backups of the RAW files and .BIB files (plain text files that contain my edits, produced by Bibble) on several harddisks, contained in my desktop and two laptops.

[oldwolf]

Ideally this is how I would do it:

internal hard drive in the computer
external hard drive at home
external hard drive that is anywhere but at home or you can just burn a lot of DVDs stored off site

The reason for the offsite storage is so if the house burns down then you don't lose all your work.

[KFriede451]

Main storage on a 640GIG hard drive, and then back up to external hard drive.

[jdepould]

Multiple redundant external hard drives. Everything is catalogued through Lightroom. I have a little over 2TB on my desk right now.

[Jim Bryant]

Like jdepould, I also have multiple external harddrives and that are mirrored. I don't keep images, only programs stored on my computer HD, as images take up space and therefore the computer runs slower. I also burn everything to DVD's as well.

[Sooner]

My typical procedure is:
1. download to my computer
2. upload to off site host
3. burn to dvd (you may choose to copy your dvd's and keep 1 offsite)
4. back up to external hard drive

[jdepould]

Originally Posted by Jim Bryant

Like jdepould, I also have multiple external harddrives and that are mirrored. I don't keep images, only programs stored on my computer HD, as images take up space and therefore the computer runs slower. I also burn everything to DVD's as well.

Good point on the images on internal HD thing. I do export finished files (usually .jpg) to my internal HD, but only temporarily until I burn them or upload them.

[nicotine]

I have all of mine stored on an external hard drive and some older ones backed up onto my server. All of my finals get uploaded to the web. I have yet to have any hard drive fail on me so I usually don't try too hard to have multiple redundancy.