petercbrandt Loc: New York City, Manhattan

PapaJoe
The new drive is for convenience to reorganize and edit down duplicates, I'll keep the old drives as they are for safety.
Peter

petercbrandt Loc: New York City, Manhattan

Thank you Photoman, I will check 2brightsparks out.
Peter

Xpatch Loc: New York, Antigua, GT.

Yes, and try to convert old to format you want in new drive.

petercbrandt Loc: New York City, Manhattan

I'm impressed with this community, with so many helpful responses.

Thank you all !
Peter Brandt

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Just because you can is no reason to use a crapload of characters.

petercbrandt Loc: New York City, Manhattan

?? What crapload are you talking about ?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

"\all old folder & files of Drive-A"

(It was in the quote...)

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

It should work. I don't understand the thought process for keeping everything separate. There are numerous archiving solutions that allow you to keyword the images so finding certain traits is simpler.

i use LrC myself. 60,000+ images in one archive stored on a 42 TB Thunderbay Drive from OtherWorld Computing. This runs RAID 5 and is totally backed up daily to a second 42 TB drive.

anotherview Loc: California

"Do you guys think my logic right ?" Yes. I do the same thing. I label and keep the original drives.

I too am not yet sold on the cloud. As best I can tell, its utility arises from its accessibility by another computer with an Internet connection.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

I'm just getting used to the cloud being an additional backup available from anywhere... still keep a hard copy and backup on real drives SSD and mechanical...

Dik

cbtsam Loc: Monkton, MD

I have no idea if it will work, nor even a clear idea of what you're planning.

I can, however, comment on what you've heard about the cloud. I had my images on two 4 TB desktop hard drives, plus a desktop backup on a 10 TB desktop hard drive. The two 4 TB drives plus the internal drive were backed up to Backblaze in the cloud. One day, the newer of the 4 TB drives failed, and within a few minutes the 10 TB drive also failed!

I was beside myself! Then I remembered Backblaze. And, yes, I did find that downloading 3.3 TBs from Backblaze could take several days at least, working constantly 24 hours daily, and that was a bit disappointing, although I was able to download a few of the most recent images I wanted to work on.

Then, within a week, I had all the 3.3 TBs from Backblaze delivered on a 4 TB desktop hard drive. In the meantime, I'd replaced the dead 4TB with an 8 TB, and the dead 10 TB with a 14 TB, so I copied the 3.3 TBs from Backblaze onto the 8 TB, backed up the old 4 TB and the new 8 TB to the new 14 TB, and shipped their hard drive back to them. NOTHING LOST but a week of painstakingly downloading whatever I wanted to work on.

I cannot recommend a cloud backup strongly enough. In brief, it sorta saved my life, not to mention much of my photographic life.

photoman43

I do both as part of my backup plans.

tjw47 Loc: Michigan

Raid 1 requires 2 drives. You can't make a raid system with 1 drive.

Did you partition the single drive into two halves each 9 gb in size ?

If the drive dies, both partitions will be unusable.

If you made a raid 1 ( mirroring ) with 18gb drives, you would have 18 gb of storage available not 9gb.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

There's more to it than that. Yes, another computer can access the files if you have the username/password.

But the cloud doesn't just store the files. It duplicates them and distributes them so there are copies in widely different regions of the country (or even across countries or continents). That means if there's a regional disaster that trashes one storage facility another is available to take up the slack.

Also, the cloud storage media are maintained by professionals. Local storage media are probably maintained by amateurs. At least mine are.

Cloud backup is not meant to be your primary backup. That is best left to the local storage, primarily for bandwidth considerations. However, local storage is subject to regional disasters which can trash your entire local set of drives. If you use cloud backup in addition to your local backup, you can restore all your files.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

"Raid 1 requires 2 drives. You can't make a raid system with 1 drive."

That's what I thought, but when my new laptop from Dell arrived, the M.2 drive was partitioned into 4 and was raided... I don't know what raid was used... it was a sh*t drive and almost as slow as a mechanical one... think they thought the could increase the speed by raiding it... really don't know what they were thinking.