Questions & Answers

A. There are no ordinary families. You and every member of your family, plus your circle of friends, have dealt with sadness, celebrated joys, overcome obstacles, and achieved objectives. Some probably achieved notable successes, while others experienced real tragedies. Telling their stories, alongside their photos, documents, and mementos, typically is therapeutic for the archivist, and your work will influence generations who come after you.

A. According to a Prosoft Engineering, Inc., in a 2017 article, “Generally speaking, you can rely on your hard drive for three to five years on average. The online backup company BackBlaze analyzed the failure rates of their 25,000 running hard drives. They found that 90% of hard drives survive for three years, and 80% for four years.” Read the article here.

A. FREE is a scary word in the cloud storage universe. In the comparisons below, youʼll discover that FREE comes with some disturbing realities.

It is the only platform built specifically to preserve photos, documents, and other mementos. It not only displays your images at full resolution, but the platform also allows you to include Titles, Tags, Dates, and as much space (or as little) as you wish to tell the story behind each image. The Library feature displays all of your pictures with a strong sorting capability from which you can create Albums. Forever Albums allow you to display life events chronologically, by topic, or in any manner you choose to bring your history to life. What’s more, you can create photo projects, including books, directly on the platform.