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best way to transfer/keep pictures?
i just got a new laptop. i had a TON of pictures on my old laptop. i can't even tell you how many folders there were. i don't want to transfer them all to this computer, but i'd like to keep them somehow, without leaving them on my old laptop for the rest of eternity. and i don't want to have to print them all out. that would be time comsuming and expensive. i've been told cd's would be good, since they have a high capacity. should i go with this idea?
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Well i give you the facts, as a graphic designer i would rather store my photo collections in a hard disk (currently 1 TB or 1000GB of hdd 3.5' will cost you less than $150) but ya the quality will deteriorates because of hdd has classical problems with heat and moisture. CD will give you Approximately 640mb (although the label stated 700mb or 800mb) DVD, in fact will give you 4.44gb (equals to 7 times bigger than regular CD) that cost twice than cd, but also the data inside may damages caused by any scratch on the surface! but if you wants to keep your photo FOREVER please try the google e-mail (100% FREE) which provides you with unlimited space for e-mail & attachment files. (upload it as an attachment and save it as a draft)it only cost you the internet bandwidth.
hope that my advice, could help!
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CDs hold 700MB of data. DVDs hold 4.7GB of data. If your pictures can't fit on a few disks, then get an external hard drive.
Don't get flash memory. Data on flash memory deteriorates over many years, it has less capacity, and it's more expensive.
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Buy a flash drive. Basically a CD, only the size of a stick of gum. Cheap too.
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try to get an exturnal hard drive they can hold a shit load of pics
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cd's would work.
or you could just make a photobucket and put all of the pictures you want from your old laptop onto your new photobucket, and then log onto it on your NEW laptop and then just resave the pictures.
it's a little easier and cheaper.
haha. sorry if that's confusing.
hope i helped though. :]
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