The studios that switched.

“Eleven years of shoots is the kind of archive you don’t realize is fragile until a drive dies.”

By 2025, Maravilla Studio’s archive was scattered across Google Drive, Dropbox, and a shelf of external drives that nobody on the team could quite keep straight. Two drives had already failed silently — they only noticed when an old couple came back asking for reprints from their 2018 wedding and the files were corrupted.

Elena had tried other backup services. They were either built for spreadsheets, or built for backups so deep that recovery took a week. Neither worked for a working photographer.

What changed.

Vault replaced all of it. Every drive in the closet, every Drive folder, every WeTransfer that was about to expire — all of it now lives in one searchable archive that her whole team can pull from.

“The biggest unlock wasn’t the backup,” Elena says. “It was being able to type ‘first dances at sunset’ and get every one across the last decade. We post way more on social now because finding old work doesn’t take an afternoon.”

Her two associate shooters upload directly from venues. Her editor pulls from Vault instead of waiting for Elena to share. The studio manager handles reprint requests without needing to ask where anything is.

Where they are now.

Maravilla Studio currently has 38 TB in Vault, costing them $570 a month — about $30 less than they were spending on Drive, Dropbox, and external drive replacements combined. No drive failures since.