The smartphone made normal cameras obsolete quite some time ago. And it’s no wonder, after all there is always a smartphone to hand. It’s quick to take a photo. But what happens with all the great memories, spectacular selfies and unique snapshots?
Digital photos: Put the camera away?
The following fact shows how important this topic is: Three billion photos are taken on digital cameras and smartphones in UK — per month.
That’s a lot of irreplaceable memories. reichelt elektronik wanted to know exactly how you save your photos and, together with Kantar Emnid, interviewed 1008 citizens.
Photos are not stored securely
Based on the representative survey, it is clear that not many people store their digital photos securely. Only those people who make at least one backup copy of their photos are protecting themselves to a minimum from loss of data. But only a few people do this, as the survey shows. The photos are saved as follows:
- On the computer (52%)
- On your smartphone (40%)
- On a USB stick (40%)
- On an SD and other memory cards (36%)
- On an external hard drive (36%).
- In the Cloud (11%)
- In a digital picture frame (6%)
- On a NAS server (2%)
The three most common storage locations (multiple answers were possible) of computer, smartphone and USB stick are not enough.
Mobile phones and the like can get lost, become damaged or rendered unusable. It may be somewhat cumbersome when it comes to handling, but additional backup on an external hard drive is better. The safest method is to back up on a NAS server.
This is a storage device that runs completely autonomously from a PC in the home network. Ulf Timmermann, Managing Director of reichelt elektronik: “Good NAS servers secure the photos at the touch of a button on two or more hard disks at the same time.
Even if one of these storage disks no longer works, all content stored is available on the other disks. You therefore avoid a total loss.” Alternatively, you can save using a cloud service on the Internet.
Whilst there have been no known large failures, there are generally no guarantees against data loss.
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