What do i need to store my photos off my comp please?

esuhl

moonrakerz wrote: »

If the originals are all on your "c" drive - DO move them, to your "d" drive.

A major cause of PCs running slower and slower is where everything is stored on the "c" drive - along with the programmes.

What difference would that make? Unless disk space is running out in which case the page file might be heavily fragmented, additional files won't be touched by the OS.

closed

moonrakerz wrote: »

If the originals are all on your "c" drive - DO move them, to your "d" drive.

A major cause of PCs running slower and slower is where everything is stored on the "c" drive - along with the programmes.

urban myth - primary cause of slowness is loading crap at startup or infections.

Enterprise_1701C

I personally have two backup CDs, a USB hard drive, and a PVR with a screen, have all my photos on each of these! I have no intention of ever losing a photo, but the PVR is my favourite as it also contains my home videos and just have to grab it to show anyone anything I want to show them.

moonrakerz

closed wrote: »

urban myth.

Not necessarily............ if you have a relatively small HDD, as in many lap tops you eventually run out of the space required for cache files and swap files and things like that when programmes are running. Less space in the drive will cause also newly stored data to be more fragmented - the vast majority of casual PC users NEVER defrag their drives.
These will slow the machine down.
A casual look at the state of the HDD will not tell you that these states exist.


Apart from which - why have one "drive" empty and carry on shoving everything into the other ? The manufacturers don't help here as they often set the default "save" drive as "c" - for some strange reason.

All part of good house keeping....................

Dave_C_2

lindseykim13 wrote: »

I stopped printing photos sometime ago as too pricey and no room for tons of albums! I have been saving them to the comp then my intention was to save/backup the photos to a disc? or something to keep in a drawer in case i want to print later etc and incase my comp goes kaput!
My problem is i don't know what i need at all do to this, i have only ever burned music cds. What sort of discs do i need?
Thanks in advance.

To answer the OP's question

• Blank CD-Rs that you use to burn music CDs will be fine.
• Opt for a propriety make rather than cheap ones off the market as they should last longer.
• The program that you use to burn the music CDs should also do for the Photographs.
• You can also copy and paste the photo folders to a USB pen drive. Depends on the file size of the photos.

Some questions:

• Which software do you use to burn the music CDs? If you let us know what you use then we can give more direct advice.
• Which operating system do you have? later versions of windows have disk burning software built-in
• Which photo editing software do you use (if any) as many of these have built-in burning software

To get you started have a look here

Dave

esuhl

moonrakerz wrote: »

the vast majority of casual PC users NEVER defrag their drives.

They don't need to with Windows Vista onwards - the OS defragments mounted file systems automatically.

So long as the partition has plenty of free space, then in terms of OS performance it really doesn't matter whether there's a large number of files on the boot partition.