If SD cards are bad, what is the best way to hoard precious family photos?

I use passports. Is that reliable? Please educate me as an expert would.

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Hogan

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February 23, 2026 at 7:09 am

yep copies, have copies on your computer, usb drive, and a cloud drive wouldnt hurt. nothing worse than losing all your pictures of a lost loved one or dead pet.

Deno

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February 23, 2026 at 7:07 am

I only put junk on it to transfer or minor 4th tier backups but I had a 2.5 inch external non ssd drop and bounce a around on my concrete floor in garage about 8 years ago. Still works fine. Do I actually trust it? No never. But I’ll use it for redundant data or like a large drive to pass things to friends if needed. Drives are more resilient than you think if it’s not powered on at time of destruction.

Xaria

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February 23, 2026 at 6:55 am

You want hard-drives. Keep a backup with you and make a copy of the backup and send it to a remote location, family, bank safe, storage unit.

Daxi

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February 23, 2026 at 6:23 am

Blu-ray disc.

A 50 pack of 25gb discs is $40 USD

The drive is around $100.

Or verbatim DVD, 4.7 gb each, cheaper but you probably already have the drive. Make 3-5 copies.

Beatrice

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February 23, 2026 at 6:21 am

If you need to ask go with iCloud or OneDrive. They’ve made it a commodity and it’s pretty much subscribe and forget about it.

Silas Vane

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February 23, 2026 at 6:14 am

Make physical copies. Your only worry is fire or water. Fire and water also damage electronic devices too, but at least you won’t worry about bit rot or other beautiful things with physical media

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