Category: storage

Western Digital launched its first portable SSD drive since merge with SanDisk

John Aldred

Many thought Western Digital were a bit stuck in the times, clinging onto HDD technology. All the others were making the big push towards solid state, especially Seagate, and WD seemed to lag behind. Then, last year, Western Digital completed its acquisition of memory card manufacturer, SanDisk. Now, Western Digital have unveiled its first portable SSD; […]

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How To Copy Large Video Files to a USB Flash Drive or Other FAT32 Storage Device

JP Danko

Most of the time I deliver finished photos and videos to my clients via digital download. It’s quick, easy and saves me time and money by avoiding the hassle of uploading files to a physical storage device and sending it in the mail. However, it is occasionally necessary to copy photography and videos to a […]

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How To Build Your Own NAS From Scratch (With Parts List!)

JP Danko

Computers and data storage are almost as important to photographers and cinematographers as cameras. If you’re serious about keeping all of your photos and videos safe and secure in one place – sooner or later you will want a network attached storage solution (NAS). There are many commercially available NAS options, but with a little […]

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You could probably store your photographic life’s work on Seagate’s new 60TB SSD

John Aldred

When I upgraded from 386 to 486, my hard drive went from a measly 40MB to a whopping 240MB. Totally blown away. Look at all this extra space I have! That was 22 years ago. Since then, memory cards that store a thousand times as much are the size of a fingernail and cost relatively little. 2-4TB hard drives are […]

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Samsung’s tiny new Universal Flash Cards are five times faster than microSD

John Aldred

The current CompactFlash and SD Card standards have been around with us for a good while now.  CompactFlash has already had its dominance challenged in the new battle between XQD and CFast, but SD has thus far been relatively unscathed. Samsung looks set to take SD head on with their new removable Universal Flash Card format, […]

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The Business Cost of Data Storage for Creative Professionals

JP Danko

In my recent article “Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos” I made a case to encourage photographers to permanently delete a large majority of their image files in order to minimize their data storage requirements (among the other benefits of a smaller catalog). However, there seems to be an ongoing […]

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Pelican announces new ‘Air’ case line-up, up to 40% lighter than predecessors

Gannon Burgett

How to you redesign a classic piece of equipment that has become a staple amongst photographers (and all kinds of other professionals) the world over? You don’t, you simply make it lighter. That’s exactly what Pelican has done with their new lineup of Pelican Air cases. Similar in almost every regard as their iconic predecessors, […]

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Television series ‘The Middle’ shows why making prints of your photographs is important

Gannon Burgett

Two years ago, we asked whether or not you keep printed photographs anymore. Surprisingly, a great deal of you did, with 64% of readers responding that they do indeed print out and keep physical copies of their photographs on hand. While it’s becoming ever-cheaper to purchase extra hard drives and cloud storage, many people feel […]

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