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Originally Posted by piecenick
As an IT pro, let me make a recommendation, never store pics on a hard drive. Mine go from camera media to a password protected flash drive and the camera SD card is immediately reformatted and overwritten. I have been called in several times to recover deleted files from hard drives, it's not that hard. Even password protected cloud storage is preferable.
I have taken many hard core movies and photos of my wife, none have ever been put on my PC hard drive, always encrypted and password protected.
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I completely agree, but would suggest you use TWO secure external drives - a working drive and a backup drive.
Last year my external drive began to misfire, and it contained all my "erotic" photo's and the two websites that I run. Recovering the websites was easy, because I could download the current version from the web to the replacement external drives. However the external drive that.
However when I tried to recover all the images and data from the external drive I got about 25% back myself, and ended up paying a "drive recovery expert" to recover as much as they could - which in the end was around 75% of the total content. The bigger problem was that 50% of the recovered image files had lost their original filenames and I spent weeks going through the images so I could get them back into order so they could be stores, used and recovered easily going forward.