Pop quiz. Your house burns down. How many photos do you have left? The few on your camera's memory card (provided your camera isn't in the house at the time of the fire). Maybe a few more if you have a laptop that's also not in the house. The couple hundred on your Facebook gallery. But chances are you're missing a lot.
Question two. How many photos do you have (in overall disk-space terms)? 50 gigabytes? 100 gigabytes? More?
Wouldn't it be great to have an offsite, web-based repository for every single one of your precious images?
Well Flickr has you covered!
Granted this is not the site's primary function. It's a social photography site designed to help you share and explore photos by interest/theme. But with their most recent update Flickr has upgraded their free account to now offer one terabyte of storage space. That's a lost of photos to upload (privately or publicly and keep tucked away in the cloud in case something bad happens. Granted, it would be a horror to download your photo library one image at a time. But as a super mega emergency backup against worst-case scenarios (and FREE) it's a very viable option.
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