Japanese digital camera data backup habits
japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by goo Research into digital camera storage issues.
Demographics
1,080 members of goo Research’s online monitor group successfully completed a private internet-based survey between the 20th and 21st of April 2007. 51.9% of the sample was male, 17.1% in their teens, 19.8% in their twenties, 17.8% in their thirties, 17.6% in their forties, 17.0% in their fifties, and 10.6% aged sixty or older.
My current photo store comes to around 10 gigabytes, with most of it backed up to CD. I was suprised by the large number of people using external hard disks, but with prices dropping I suppose it makes for rapid and flexible backup when compared to CDs or DVDs.
Research results
Q1: Excluding ones attached to mobile phones, do you have a digital still camera? (Sample size=1,080)
Yes, have own digital still camera (to SQs) 60.1% Yes, have shared family digital still camera 27.9% No, don’t have a digital still camera 12.0% Within the 950 people who had access to a digital camera, the most popular spec was 5 to 8 megapixels, with 357 people, or 37.6%, having one. Next was 3 to 5 megapixels, with 329, 34.6%, having that size. The number of owners of digital SLR (single lens reflex) cameras was 83, or 8.7% of those with digital cameras.
Q1SQ1: About how much stored photographic image data (taken by self or family) do you have? (Sample size=650)
Votes Percentage Up to 1 gigabyte 98 15.1% 1 to 5 gigabytes 114 17.5% 5 to 50 gigabytes 118 18.2% 50 to 100 gigabytes 39 6.0% Over 100 gigabytes 31 4.8% Don’t know 249 38.4% 50.8% backed up their data to two different types of media, and 3.2% backed up to three or more!
Q1SQ2: How do you back up this data? (Sample size=351, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage CD 122 34.8% External hard disk 105 29.9% DVD 98 27.9% Internal hard disk 81 23.1% MO disk 14 4.0% Zip disk 2 0.6% Other 17 4.8%
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Jennifer said,
May 19, 2007 @ 00:52
For online backup news, information and articles, there is an excellent website:
http://www.BackupReview.info
This site lists more than 400 online backup companies and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.
Any one can add their company in the directory. Just click on the “Search” button found at the top.
Cheers,
Deas said,
May 19, 2007 @ 11:22
Um, the above comment looks a bit blogspammy. (But I don’t know. Ha ha.)
I’m surprised at this. I have loads of digitally stored photos. I bought an external 400 GB hard drive specifically for the job. I’ve only got maybe 200 GB of photos and video, but I thought I’d leave myself some more space. Now I’ve got a monstrous 750 GB internal on my computer, but the external serves as a great backup. I recently bought my first USB flash drive, and its 1GB capacity was surprisingly affordable. (￥2500, to be exact.) Given the lowering costs of digital storage media and the boost in the mega-pixel counts (which are incredibly overrated), I expect that next year the numbers would change significantly. You know? That’s my take anyway.
michelle79 said,
June 25, 2008 @ 19:16
I discovered a Memopal (www.memopal.com) “cutting edge solution for online
backup”
They merged online backup, online storage and file sharing services into one product.
If you try this service you will notice that (contrary to most competitors):
- You can access your files in (true) real time with a web browser
- They really offer 250 GB (some competitors offer a fake unlimited web
space, they say “fair use”)
- You can share a file or many files with the 1-click-share functionality
- Some of your files will be uploaded very very fast (turboupload)
- The service and website are in 10 different languages
I’ve also found two useful guide to online backup on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_backup