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Welcome to the 17th episode of The Richard J Nieves Photography Podcast!

I’m Richard J Nieves, portrait and wedding photographer, and owner of Richard J Nieves Photography located in The Bronx in New York City.

When I first started photography, I thought I lived in a world where nothing wrong could happen. I was exempt from software malfunctions. Then my Lightroom Catalogue, the file that contained all my cherished data in Lightroom, got corrupted and I failed to keep proper backups. Thousands of photos lost. I learned my lesson the hard way.

If you're just beginning your photography business, I implore you get some affordable solutions until you can afford higher end storage solutions.

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I recommend you purchase at least 2-3 affordable HDD external hard drives with lots of storage.

For under $100, you can get hard drives with terabytes of storage.

I also suggest you get an external SSD hard drive to work off of.

A good one will cost roughly $150-$200, but they're worth the cost.

When you're initially off-boarding your files from your camera's memory card, copy them, not move them, to one of your large hard drives. Those are your first copies.

After you've gone through those photos and chosen your favorites, copy those to your SSD. Those are your second copies.

The reason you want to work off of an SSD is because they typically have much faster read and write speeds compared to HDDs.

If you purchased more than one inexpensive second hard drive, copy all of your files to the second hard drive for redundancy. Those are your third copies.

I also recommend you spend $6 every month and pay for an online backup service like BackBlaze. They're not a sponsor, but I really love that, for an affordable rate, they'll backup whatever drives I ask of them. Those will be your 4th copies.

Backups will not only allow all the work you've done to not be in vein should you have a malfunction, but it allows you to have the peace of mind knowing your client's memories are in tact and always available.

There's better storage solutions available, but you're paying a high price for the technology and convenience for items such as hard drive enclosures featuring RAID arrays or NAS systems.

If you're just starting with a limited budget, this solution could hold you down until you can upgrade.

I'll leave links to my favorite YouTube videos featuring more in-depth solutions and recommendations for storage gear, I'll also include links to my favorite storage HDDs and SSDs in the show notes and blog post for this episode on www.richardjnphoto.com/blog.

If you have another way of managing photography storage, please leave a comment on the blog or on my instagram post for this episode. My username is rich_photog.

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