Until it happened to me, I never thought I’d experience it. I was working on a research paper for business school when my computer screen sudddenly went black, then blue, then nothing.
I called Dell technical support and a nice guy in a Hyderabad, India call center told me I had experienced the Blue Screen of Death and that there was little to no hope of recovering my data.
Even worse than losing the 20-page paper I was working on, I lost three years worth of digital photos I had stored in a file on my desktop. I was heart sick because I rarely (okay, almost never) backed up my hard drive. I know, I know, very stupid move.
Flash forward. I now back up my hard drive every few days but I was really intrigued when I was contacted by the team at Picture Keeper to try out their automatic photo backup drive.
I received the PK 4 drive which holds up to 4,000 1MB pictures. The Picture Keeper Drive comes in a number different sizes the largest of which, the PK PRO, holds a whopping 250,000 photos.
The model I tried, the PK-4 retails for about $29.99.
Now mind you, I’m not a professional photographer and so my review is aimed at the casual, hobby photographer who’s looking for a simple and affordable photo back up device.
HOW IT WORKS
Picture Keeper works like a standard USB flash drive. A big plus for the tech phobic is that you don’t need to download any software because it’s contained in the device. Simply turn on your computer and insert the Picture Keeper drive in your USB port. Open the Picture Keeper program then click the start button to start your back up.
The Picture Keeper will search for any .jpg or .bmp files and download them on to the drive for safekeeping. That’s it. When I opened up the Picture Keeper to view my photos, they were indeed all there.
When you are ready to print, simply take your Picture Keeper drive to a Walgreen’s photo printing kiosk and print your little heart away.
Picture Keeper Pros
Picture Keeper Cons
Overall, this is a handy little device and perfect for storing all of the photos I plan to take on my family vacation to the beach in South Carolina this summer.
Now for the Giveaway!
I’m going to give away one Picture Keeper drive to one lucky winner on Thursday. Entering is super easy and you may enter as many times as you like by doing the following:
Update: Congratulations to reader Kenia who won a Picture Keeper drive to store her summer memories!
Good luck!
Disclosure: I was given the Picture Keeper drive for review purposes but was not compensated monetarily. All opinions are my own.
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I would like a Picture Keeper because I need to save the only few pictures I have of my twins so I won’t lose them. I already lost hundreds on my old laptop. The twins themselves decided to pour an entire bottle of windex over it =(
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