Picture Keeper

Digital Insurance

Digital pictures are easy to take, easy to share, easy to accumulate... and frighteningly easy to lose forever if a hard drive fails, gets lost or is stolen. We all know this, yet it’s hard to stay disciplined about making backup copies on a regular basis, especially when photos get downloaded to multiple folders and multiple devices.

Until now, that is. Matt Stanchie, founder of Simplified IT Products, devised a simple way to duplicate digital photos for safekeeping after some of his close friends lost precious family photos due to a hardware failure. Called Picture Keeper, it’s a very focused solution. There’s no software to download, no complicated procedures. Simply plug it into a USB port and it starts working. Picture Keeper automatically searches for digital photo files and copies them in their original file format and folders. You can move it from device to device (PCs and Macs), and it will keep on copying your favorite, funniest, most awkward and most treasured digital memories. It’s peace of mind, pure and simple.

— Ann

Typically the size of 1 picture or JPG is around 1 MB if your camera's resolution is around 5 Megapixels with a medium image quality setting. If you have a high resolution digital camera and have it set to a high image quality, it's possible that the average files size will be much more than 1 MB and your Picture Keeper will store fewer photos accordingly.

Below is a chart to help you determine how many pictures will fit depending on the size of your Picture Keeper and your camera's resolution.

PK-4 stores from 1,000 to 4,000 photos depending on size of each photo.

PK - 8 stores 2,000 to 8,000 photos depending on size of each photo.

PK- 16 stores 4,000 to 16,000 photos depending on size of each photo.

PK PRO is an external hard drive that is the size of a mobile phone and stores 62,500 to 250,000 photos depending on size of each photo.