Archiving digital photos

Hi there,

Sorry if this is a stupid question that gets asked all the time, but does anybody have any innovative ideas about what to do with all the hundreds of megabytes of photos I'm accumulating each week? Since upgrading from a Powershot A80 to a 400D, suddenly my photos are about three times the size, and combined with an increased use of continuous shooting, my poor little computer is really struggling to cope!

What do you guys do with all your stuff? Do you just have to be REALLY fussy and throw away masses of photos each week, or do you shrink down the ones that you don't expect you'll ever want to get developed, or what?

Any recommendations for additional storage devices, e.g. external hard drives, or other things that you can archive stuff on reliably?

I archive my photos on a 500GB external hard drive. Eventually those photos get archived onto DVDs as I fill up the 500GB drive.

I always find it difficult to delete anything that isn't spot-on, but, thats what you have to do.

Afterall, whats the point of saving something, irrespective of size or resolution, that you are never likely to use?

Throw away the junk. Backup the rest to an external hard drive, and to dvd if available.

i have that exact same problem, I have gigs of photos stored, all of them from my p&s regardless if they are clear or not, I just can't come to delete them!

From card to my HD and then copied to my external HD.. only when I have 2 copies do i format my cards.

At the end of every month I backup whats on my HD to DVD and then delete off my HD ready for next month... always 2 copies.. current month is my HD and external HD. All other months is DVD and external HD


I also publich my pics on my website and I currently have over forty five thousand (45,080) images online but they are all between 640 and 800 pixels wide so not really backups.