Storage Solution

With the increase in popularity of DSLR camera’s, the technology is advancing rapidly. Of late there has been a mega pixel race much like the arms race during the cold war period (actually not really but it’s nice metaphor). This has brought on challenges for photographers when it comes to larger and larger file sizes and available storage. For example let’s say you are a wedding photographer with a laptop that has a HD capacity of 100GB (pretty common). You’d probably fill that drive to capacity after 10 weddings. At my last wedding I shot 10GB worth of images. Now, what if your shooting 20, 30 or more weddings a year? That’s not to mention all the other “stuff” on your hard drive, from software to personal photographic work. The bottom line is we need a solution. More space for archiving. Currently there are some online solutions but in my opinion they are still pricy. So here is a temporary solution. This week BestBuy had a sale a 500GB Western Digital External HD. For the price per/GB you can’t beat it and at 15-20 weddings per year, it will last you about 3 years. They are portable of course and if you upgrade your laptop or desktop within that time, no problem, you can still use it. For the price, not only are you purchasing storage space but your buying yourself 3 years. 3 years for the technology to advance, the megapixel race to level off and hopefully a more permanent solution.

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