What are the best ways to store digital photos?
It’s so easy to capture digital photos that they tend to pile up quickly and take up space on your hard drive. At some point, you have to decide on a long-term storage option. Here are your best bets: • DVD A DVD holds 4.7GB of data, which translates to more than 15,000 high-quality pictures. That’s about seven times the capacity of a CD. And HP’s innovative double-layer recording technology lets you use double-layer DVDs to record almost twice as much data as you can on single-layer DVDs. • External hard drives Portable external hard drives, such as the HP Personal Media Drive are also a good option for storing your photos. These drives attach via a USB or FireWire port and come in huge sizes, anywhere from 80GB to 400GB and higher. External hard drives are easy to transport; simply disconnect and take them along for the ride.
