![]() ![]() That means transferring them from your flash memory card to your two external hard drives. A pair of 1 TB drives is a good place to start as that’s plenty of room for most short trips and in most cases will last several trips.Īt the end of each day, you’ll want to back up your images. This means you’ll need at least 280 GB of free space on each of your travel hard drives. (10 days) x (4 dives) x (200 images per dive) x (35 MB per image) = 280,000 MB or 280 GB Here’s a simple way of calculating your expected storage needs for a 10-day liveaboard with four dives per day using a Nikon D810 (35 MB per image). The size of the hard drives you bring depends on several factors: Therefore, you should bring at least two external hard drives on every trip. Rule: Your images must be stored in at least TWO separate places. Some hard drives that have favorable reviews across the Web are: There are countless companies making countless varieties of external drives, but since underwater photography takes us to some pretty rough-and-tumble places, stick with the more durable types. Selecting Digital Storage Equipment for the Field “Home drive” (RAID system or single external drive).That’s why it’s critical that underwater photographers establish a secure backup workflow. Of course, as underwater photographers, the majority of our images are made and initially stored in less than “ideal” conditions-from the humid air of the tropics to the risks of airline baggage handlers. But this assumes that you use your hard drive in a near-ideal environment. Manufacturers often claim that their hard drive’s MTBF can span decades. There’s even a figure that estimates when your hard drive will fail: mean time between failures, or MTBF. The following guide can be adapted and customized to suit your needs, but it’s a good starting place for how to safely get your photos from the field back home. There are many different workflows for backing up your images, and ultimately you will have to find the system that works for you. We can take more images in a short amount of time than ever before-but with this ability also comes the need to have a concrete solution for storing and backing up your pictures. One thing that all photographers have in common is that they need a system to back up their photos. ![]()
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