Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
Good question Steve.
We have loads in old fashioned photo albums and they still seem to be in reasonable nick.. Lost loads in the past during one house or country move or another..That I regret a lot.
The thousands we have now are either on the laptop or an external hardrive..Thinking about getting a one terabyte HD and stick them all on that along with videos. The problem is though do these external HD`s last for years and years? Say 50 years or could all that data be corrupted,damaged or lost?
Some say they put them all on facebook but what happens in 20 years if they go the way of many social media websites and close down?
So what to do with all of our treasured photo`s to ensure our great great grand kids see them?
I have no idea!
An external hardrive is just the same as what's in your computer or laptop, and as you will know, computer and lap top hard drives do fail, there is no way to predict its lifespan,

I save on external hard drive and lap top; also copies on flash drives. I also load photos to free sites like photo bucket, and I also use drop box.

I wouldn't recommend to rely on one saved source