Local Storage for Photos and Videos

Protect Memories With Our Data Storage

Our Data Storage Services

Don’t risk losing your newly digitized family memories! We now provide professional offline data storage in our local labs for media we digitize. This local storage for your digital family memories is specially designed as secure data storage for photos, videos and personal audio recordings. Our onsite data archiving ensures your digitized history is protected for years to come, giving you the peace of mind you deserve.

Our data storage services aren’t just another external hard drive to backup photos and videos. We offer true offline data storage on duplicate servers, meaning two copies of your files are kept completely separate from your home devices and the internet. By creating redundant local data storage offline in our secure labs, we protect your digitized memories from threats like hard drive failure, accidental deletion, or online security breaches. 

Our data storage service is the ultimate way to keep your family memories safe from loss, and provides the best video, audio and picture storage, ensuring a secondary, safe copy exists, completely independent of your home storage. Stop by any location to get started!

Backup Photos, Videos and Family Memories with Memories to Digital

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Offline & protected from online security breaches

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Onsite in local labs, separate but accessible

The Perfect Way to Keep Your Family Memories Safe From Loss

A single hard drive failure, misplaced memory stick, or accidental deletion can wipe out your collection of digital family memories, while cloud storage is dependent on internet access and vulnerable to hacking. That’s why Memories to Digital offers secure data storage right in our local labs. This offline data archive acts as a secondary, physically separate copy of your home files, keeping your memories safely backed up and easily accessible.

Additional Information

What’s Included in Our Data Storage Services

All backup storage subscriptions include:

  • Storing a copy of your digital files on at least two of our local, offline storage servers with RAID 1 data redundancy. 
  • One annual download of your digital memories to a USB drive. We sell USB drives or you can provide a drive.
  • Currently, only digital files we produce in a film, video, photo or audio digitization or conversion project are eligible for storage on our backup servers. 

    Your original storage media are returned to you after your files are safely stored on our servers. All MemoryWise backup storage is maintained offline by our professionally trained staff in our local labs.

    Note: All backup storage subscriptions require a current payment backed by valid payment information on file and are non-refundable. Backup storage subscriptions automatically renew unless you cancel, and can be cancelled at any time with cancellation taking effect at the end of the paid term. If the auto-renewal fails, your storage plan will be extended for 30 days so you can update your payment information. After 30 days, your subscription will terminate, you will lose all access to the data, and your data will be deleted.

     

     

     

    How to Backup Photos, Videos and Audio Recordings with Memories to Digital
    1. Select the backup storage subscription plan that suits your files and decide on a monthly or annual payment plan.
    2. If you recently completed a digitization project within the last 30 days, we will still have a copy of your digital files on our servers. Continuing this backup storage is easy–simply call us to purchase the backup storage subscription over the phone and your storage will continue per your subscription plan.
    3. If your 30 days of free backup storage has lapsed and we no longer have a copy of the files on our servers, it’s no problem–pick a location and book an appointment to drop off a copy of the files and purchase a subscription, or simply stop by a location that accepts walk-ins. Remember, only digital files we produce in a film, video, photo or audio digitization or conversion project are eligible for storage on our servers.
    4. Once your memories are safely backed up, read about all of the services we provide to help you edit and share your digital video and your digital photos.

    Data Storage Pricing

    Storage Medium
    Pricing
    Backup Storage
    First 30 days
    After first 30 days
    Included, no charge
    All film, video, photo and audio digitization and conversion projects include 30 days of free backup
    Up to 16GB of storage:
    $1.95/month or $19.95/year
    Up to 100GB of storage:
    $4.95/month or $49.95/year
    Up to 200GB of storage:
    $9.95/month or $99.95/year

    Minimum order: $29.95

    All backup storage subscriptions require a current payment backed by valid payment information on file and are non-refundable.  Backup storage subscriptions automatically renew unless you cancel, and can be cancelled at any time with cancellation taking effect at the end of the paid term. If the auto-renewal fails, your storage plan will be extended for 30 days so you can update your payment information. After 30 days, your subscription will terminate, you will lose all access to the data, and your data will be deleted. 

    Why Choose Memories to Digital?

    We Treat Your Memories as if They’re Our Own

    We founded Memories to Digital in 2003 after our family mailed their family films away and they got lost. We wanted our community to have a local place to convert family memories, one that offered an alternative to faceless mail-away services.

    Today, whether you visit a Memories to Digital location, a Memorywise location, or one of our local partner businesses to drop off or pick up, you receive the same great service from the same dedicated local team. We are your media digitization experts.

    We do 100% of our work ourselves, in-house, locally. We give you and your memories the personal service, care and attention deserved, and we use the latest technology to provide you with high-quality digital memories.

    Safe, Secure, and Nearby

    Eliminate the worry of mailing your memories. We’re local, we do all of our work in-house, and we take it seriously to safeguard your media while in our care.

    Media Digitization Experts

    Put our extensive digitization expertise to work! We don’t sell cameras or print photos–we specialize in converting all of the old media formats into the latest and best digital formats.

    Quality You Can Trust

    Our 30-day, 100% guarantee says it all. We pride ourselves on delivering the best possible digital replication of your media as ordered, and will work tirelessly to resolve any issues.

    Customized Solutions

    Meet with a real person and get your project done right. We’re not a cookie-cutter, drop-box operation– we offer a level of personal service and customization others can’t touch. 

    Testimonials

    Just wanted to thank you again for the great job you did on my family’s movies. They were a big hit, especially the first DVD – The Early Years. Mom and Dad both teared up as they told their children and grandchildren about our family’s history.

    Oke Johnson
    Superior, CO

    Thank you – the film transfers look terrific! It cost a little more than I had imagined, but it was well worth it. You did a great job and be sure that I will recommend your work anytime. I already did my first DVD with some of the clips and it just looks great!

    Emilio Suarez
    Niwot, Colorado

    Our Process

    1. Contact & Drop Off

    When you’re ready to get started, pick a location to drop off your media and book an appointment, or simply stop by a location that accepts walk-ins. During your initial appointment, we will gather the details, determine which services best suit your needs, and provide an estimate of cost and timing. If your appointment is via phone, we will make arrangements for you to drop off your media.

    2. We Digitize!

    Once we receive your media, we will follow up with any questions and update our estimates. When you approve, we’ll start digitizing! All of our work is done in-house, locally. We use state-of-the-art equipment and software, and we have multiple quality checks built into our processes. Our goal is to deliver the best possible digital replication of your media, arranged into the final product you envision.

    3. Enjoy, Share & Preserve

    We’ll call you when your project is ready for pickup. Once home, you can conveniently enjoy your newly digitized film, video, photo & audio memories on all your devices. It’s also easy to share them with family and friends, and safely store them for future generations. We provide a free backup for 30 days, giving you time to order copies and safeguard your investment. We look forward to working with you!

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    Keep Your Memories Safe With Secure, Local Data Storage

    Protecting your digitized memories doesn’t end once your project is complete. Our data storage services offer a safe and dependable way to preserve your family photos, family videos, and personal recordings long-term. Unlike traditional cloud storage or a single external hard drive, our fully offline data storage keeps your files completely secure and protected from online threats.

    Our local labs provide the ideal storage for photos, storage for videos, and reliable options to backup photos without relying on the internet. This is true secure data storage, designed to protect your files from accidental deletion, computer issues, and hard drive failure. When you choose local data storage with us, you gain a dedicated, in-person team ensuring your memories stay safe and accessible.

    For families wanting the best photo storage or dependable data archiving, we store your digital files on two separate servers—providing built-in redundancy far beyond typical home setups. It’s a smarter storage solution backed by the proven 3/2:1 rule of data storage, giving you total peace of mind that your memories are protected no matter what happens.

    Whether you need external photo storage, a server for video storage, or long-term backup storage for your most important personal data, our team is here to help. With convenient Denver Metro and Boulder locations, your digitized history remains secure, local, and professionally maintained for years to come.

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    Here are the reasons to consider capturing your film in 2K or HD instead of SD:

    • Film predates pixels and lines of resolution. The image on film is generated when one or more layers of a random pattern of silver halide crystals react to light, and are retained or washed away and replaced by dyes in the developing process.The image detail generated by this process can appear anywhere on the surface of the film.
    • The more lines of resolution we scan with, the more of this random placement of image detail is captured and converted to pixels. Standard definition (SD) captures 720x480 pixels of detail, high-definition (HD) captures 1920x1080 pixels of detail, and 2K captures 2560x1440 pixels of detail.
    • Sometimes, scanning with more lines captures more of the “grain” of the film, or the crystals that remain on the surface of the film. The grain is more obvious in film that was produced with larger crystals (R8), and less obvious in film that was produced with smaller crystals (S8, 16mm). For some R8 film, scanning in SD softens the detail of the grain making it less disruptive to the image.
    • These days, with HD, 2K and 4K viewing environments - and larger and larger screens - more, smaller pixels is always better because the smaller pixels provide more detail and a smoother image as the image is enlarged to a big-screen.

    SD can never reproduce the full image detail on a film frame because SD video has a fixed pixel pattern with a density of 720x480 pixels, and the pixels that make up the image are always in the same place from one video frame to the next. But film has a random grain pattern, and the image created by the grains of crystals is in a totally different place from one film frame to the next. These random grains each carry a bit of the detail that make up the complete picture and, at running speed, the random grains overlap each other on the retina of your eye to significantly increase the amount of apparent detail. This is called “accumulative resolution”. If you transfer your 8mm home movies to SD video, even with the very best SD camera, your detail will be limited by the coarse, fixed pixel pattern inherent in SD video. Of course, HD and 2K have a fixed pixel pattern, too, but the number of pixels are so great and the pattern is so insignificant, that HD and 2K are like a fine silk stocking compared to the burlap weave of SD. 

    Our high definition (HD) film capture offers resolution gains of 667% over a standard definition (SD) capture (more than 6 times better). Our HD capture is not a mere up-conversion from an SD source. Our HD film capture equipment uses a high definition image sensor to take in 5 times the square pixels per frame of film that our SD machine is not capable of picking up. For 8mm films the HD image sensor generates greater than 4000 pixels per inch. Thus, the accumulative resolution effect found in film can be more readily seen in an HD transfer than in an SD transfer.