storage

    Amazon, Google, SmugMug, Apple: what’s the best home for your photos?
    Mar 22, 2022 Jefferson Graham

    When last we met, I pointed out the perils of using Apple’s iCloud Photos for photo backup for one simple reason: if you delete an image off…

    Don’t use iCloud to backup your photos
    Mar 15, 2022 Jefferson Graham

    My friend Bill just returned from a family vacation in Costa Rica and shot lots of photos and video on his iPhone, including some killer…

    These gorgeous stickers are the most stylish way to label your lenses
    Sep 9, 2021 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    If you own a lot of lenses and cameras, labeling them will make your life easier. Canadian company Field Made Co. is on a mission…

    Google’s “Backup and Sync” will stop working at the end of September
    Jul 19, 2021 John Aldred

    Launched in 2017, Google’s Backup and Sync app was its way of tying your desktop computer or laptop into Google Drive and Google Photos so…

    SmugMug adds raw storage service with file management & AI-powered search
    Jul 13, 2021 John Aldred

    Popular photo hosting service, SmugMug, has just launched a new feature that photographers have wanted for a long time. SmugMug Source is a new add-on…

    All Western Digital My Cloud OS 3 NAS devices vulnerable to major exploits
    Jul 3, 2021 John Aldred

    Western Digital’s not having a great time lately, huh? After having received reports from users that their Western Digital My Book Live devices were randomly…

    Unplug your WD My Book Live right now or you might end up with an expensive brick
    Jun 25, 2021 John Aldred

    The Western Digital My Book Live NAS products are extremely popular amongst photographers. External storage devices that you can just whack on your network and…

    This massive 16TB external SSD offers speeds up to 2,800MB/sec and costs a whopping $3,300
    Jun 22, 2021 John Aldred

    Sometimes, you just need a whole lot of external storage and you need it to be really, really fast – especially if you’re shooting video….

    PSA: Google’s free cloud photo storage ends in 2 weeks – Here are eight alternatives
    May 16, 2021 John Aldred

    Last November, Google announced that its free unlimited photo backup was going to end and it would all fall under the free shared 15GB get…

    Google Photos “High Quality” not as high quality as originally claimed, Google “warns”
    Mar 1, 2021 John Aldred

    Google has reportedly sent out an email to Google Photos cloud storage users promoting they eat up their 15GB of free storage and buy into…