|
Welcome to the forum!
Do you edit your photos at all? If so you must copy them to your computer. Anyway, I say use the internal hard drive for now and to be safe, also copy them to a USB flash drive if you have one. However, that can fill up pretty quick depending on the photos you take. SD cards can break in half easily, I have done it. In general having one copy of anything important, no matter what it is stored on, is a bad idea.
Myself, I have them on my computer, then I back them up to a NAS (Network attached storage) which is an external hard drive (two actually, mirrored for safety) that I connect to over the network. It is seen as just another hard drive. I also use another external USB hard drive to make a second copy. You can never have to many backups.
Then there is my father in law. He has had a digital camera for about 8 years now. He takes photos, never makes any adjustments and then takes them and gets them printed. When the card fills up, he deletes the old ones. I do not think his memory card has been formatted since it was new. Very risky. His computer has a built in card reader and I have set it up to copy over the contents of the card when plugged in, but he never does. We have told him that those are the same as negatives and his answer was "I used to lose them too, so it does not matter". You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.
|