USB Storage to store family pictures

wigster · 4 Sep 2023 at 20:25

What do you recommend to store family pictures? in the past i was putting them on cdrs and then usb pens. I have so many pens lol i think it's time to store them on something more practical.

wigster · 4 Sep 2023 at 20:41

I do still have them backed up on cdrs also some other people have copies of them so it's well backed up. I think a portable hard drive sounds good. Thanks.

wigster · 4 Sep 2023 at 21:12

I'm always telling people to back up their back ups and not to keep them all in one location.

My sister was a prime example she had all of her daughters pictures just on her phone, someone had swiped her phone at a event, luckily we made such a fuss that it reappeared.

wigster · 5 Sep 2023 at 06:58

Thanks Guys

I do also have them on two seperate hard drives on my computer as its convenient but not really safe.

wigster · 6 Sep 2023 at 17:42

InkZ said:
Amazon prime photos, and back them up to the cloud.

I'm not a fan of clouds to back up pictures after my old photobucket account got screwed up.

wigster · 6 Sep 2023 at 17:55

Thanks i do dig them out every now and then to make sure they are ok. I didn't know about the dye cheers.

wigster · 6 Sep 2023 at 18:28

I have had a lot printed before, it's a good way to keep them fresh.

wigster · 13 Sep 2023 at 17:45

Should be getting my external drive tomorrow, so I'm going to use cdrs as extra backup I still have hundreds of cdrs sitting around.

Is there any software thats available to password the external drive but so it isn't just locked to one computer.

wigster · 13 Sep 2023 at 22:29

Seems Veracrypt is the better one to use as its more secure.

wigster · 14 Sep 2023 at 15:39

Got my external drive just about to use Veracrypt what is the better format ntfs or exfat?

wigster · 14 Sep 2023 at 22:22

Well that didn't go well with Veracrypt went through hours of format and when I try to mount the device I get a error code 9170.I have entered the password correctly.

Edit: I just couldn't get it to mount kept on getting that same number, this time i picked the automount devices and this time it worked. Then I unmounted and did it again this time picking the drive myself and it worked.