Data Storage Hardware
Your digital storage is a critical component of your digital imaging system. This section outlines how digital storage works, and how to set it up for a still photo or video production environment.
Storage Overview
Let's start the process with a basic understanding of the various data storage tools and how to use them to protect your data.
Storage Hardware Overview
Hard drives
These three pages outline how hard drives work, and how to take care of them.
Hard Drive 101
Hard drives are currently the primary means photographers use to store their images. We give you all the background information.
SSD 101
Solid-state drives are an important new tool for portable computing and for workflow acceleration. This page provides an outline of how they work.
Hard Drive Handling
Hard drives are amazing devices, but as complex precision devices, they need to be handled carefully.
Disk Configurations
Hard drives can be set up many different ways. Find out what will work best for you.
Other Storage Media
While hard drives are the best media for primary storage and for your first level of backup storage, optical disc and digital tape can also be useful. These two pages outline the issues with these other media.
Optical Media
Optical storage can serve as a valuable backup to hard drive based storage.
Digital Tape
High capacity and ease of automation makes digital tape a viable backup for larger photo studios, institutions, and corporations.
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