Online Digital Photo and Movie Storage Solutions

Remember when you just stored your photos in an old shoe box or if you were really organised you used photo albums, and then put them in a cupboard.

Although printed photos don't last forever they do last many years even without preservation methods.

Most of us have seen old black and white photos photos of our parents, grand parents or even ourselves that have just been stored in an old shoe box for the last 50 years.

Today photo prints are getting rarer as most people use digital cameras and digital storage. Digital storage offers the prospect of unlimited archive life due to the fact that digital information can be copied without loss any loss of quality.

However digital storage has its own problems which relate to the fact that digital storage technology and devices are constantly changing and evolving so as to cope with the every growing need for more storage capacity.

Today's digital cameras come with a broad array of short term (temporary ) storage options and these storage options are constantly changing. Keeping your photos on, for example, SD memory cards isn't really an option as it is not guaranteed that this format will be supported on cameras in 10 years time.

Therefore what is needed is a strategy to move the photos from the temporary storage of the digital camera onto a more long term storage. For many people this has simply meant copying them onto a PC/Laptop. However digital photos stored on a PC/Laptop aren't secure, and can easily be lost due to computer /disk failure or even accidental deletion.

Because of this many are now actively looking for more longer term and future proof solutions to safeguard their digital memories whether photos or movies. Online storage of digital data like photos is becoming more popular due to the increased use of high speed Internet access. Online Storage has many advantages over local storage:

Photos/data can be shared
Data is stored away from the users home/office
Data is stored in an easily accessible format (no special hardware required to read it).
No Special hardware required.

There are also disadvantages like:

Need Internet access to access it
Need High Speed Internet Access.
Usually has monthly Cost

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