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My friend Bill just returned from a family vacation in Costa Rica and shot lots of photos and videos on his iPhone, including some killer shots of breakfasts with local monkeys.

GNARBOX is no longer operated by the people who founded and ran it for the last several years. According to Tim Feess, the company's founder and former CEO, the original management team is no longer with the company and hasn't been since November of 2021.

GNARBOX appears to be dead. The company behind the popular rugged backup device has seemingly gone dark, leaving customers without support and turning the product into an expensive portable drive with no extra functionality.

The topic of proper backup and storage strategies for creatives has been a heated debate for years. While there are a plethora of best practices to follow, arguably there is no "one size fits all" solution to cater to every photographer's needs.

Losing priceless digital photographs is something that all too many people experience these days. If you want to make sure you store your digital files properly, read this guide on the best ways to backup your photos for a lifetime in 2022.

China-based LamboTech has announced the LamboGo, a portable and rugged high-speed SSD backup solution that is designed for photographers who want to secure their footage without needing to use a laptop as a go-between.

The GoPro Quik app is getting a substantial perk added for its subscriber base: unlimited cloud storage at no additional cost.

Dropbox has announced a set of interface and performance upgrades to its platform that are aimed to make it easier to organize and upload photos, give users faster access to content, and allow users to do more in the cloud storage platform through new file conversion tools.

As Google Photos transitions away from its free unlimited storage model, the company is starting to push users towards higher-paid tiers through disingenuous marketing. In a recent subscriber email, Google goes back on original promises and states "high quality" may not actually be high quality.

If you're a Canon shooter who struggles with backing up your photos on a regular basis, you may be happy to know that there's a new integration with Google Photos that allows for automatic image backups over Wi-Fi.

Whether you take your photos professionally or for fun, how many of you out there can truly say you’re are happy with your photo backup strategy? If a drive were to fail, will you lose any photos? If you have a house fire or were to be burgled, do you have a copy elsewhere?

What do you do when your NAS/RAID/DAS is almost filled up and you need more storage? The answer probably isn’t what you think… Some DAS and NAS, like those from Synology and Drobo, let you replace smaller drives with larger drives to “add capacity.” But doing that doesn’t necessarily give you access to a meaningful amount of additional storage.

The Drobo is a wish list item for many photographers, but do you really need one? A few years ago, the compelling reason to buy one was to have more storage than a single drive could provide at the time. But with 10TB external drives available for ~$179, having a lot of storage in a single drive is a lot easier and a lot less expensive.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. We reported over the weekend that iPhone users have been enjoying free and unlimited original-quality photo backups through Google Photos thanks to the ultra-efficient HEIC file format. Google is now calling it a "bug" and saying that it will be fixed.

A year or so ago, I wrote an article on why I switched from Nikon to Sony. A few people asked why I didn’t move to the Nikon mirrorless system. And the answer was simple: I didn’t want to risk shooting a wedding with a single memory card slot.

We keep hearing the same story every year: newlyweds that are left desolated because the photographer lost their wedding images. From dual memory card slots to the ever decreasing price of computer storage, human negligence has become the weakest link in the workflow.