Szalajj Loc: Salem, NH

My computers are old enough that my desktop only has a 500 GB hard drive. The partition for Windows 7 isn't large enough!!!

Both of my older computers are tri-boot!

The new laptop is now running Windows 10 only!

Szalajj Loc: Salem, NH

Please ignore!

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

I shoot thousands of images weekly and believe me when I say the larger the drive the better it will be but you must have two (yes I said 2) drives. Always keep a backup. I took my shots one week last year to the studio on a portable dive which I was just using at home. When I got to the studio the drive was not recognized but because I always keep 2 copies of my work all I had to do was go home and get the other drive. Especially while you are traveling make a second copy on the second drive as soon as you finish uploading to the main drive. I have 2 Seagate drives that have died unexpectedly so I do not recommend Seagate. The drive inside one of them was actually a Samsung. Yes I took them apart. Why because I used to be an electronics engineer and can sometimes retrieve data but not in this case besides I had backup and I was unable to find anyway to contact Seagate.

cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

I have a 1 Tb Seagate external drive that is 3 inches by 4.5 inches by less than an inch. I think you could buy several and not even notice them taking up room in your camera bag.

terry44 Loc: Tuolumne County California, Maui Hawaii

I agree with you Hal. I have found that is the bes way to go after lugging everything it is nice to thin the pile down.

dyximan

You're right I Must must be wrong as my megapixels are different than yours, but you guys are obviously better brighter and more qualified than myself so you should be able to do the math as well.

vininnj2u Loc: Whiting, New Jersey, USA

Thanks for ALL the replies. I purchased a 3TB Ext. HD from Toshiba. It is very small and great for traveling. I am looking forward to the trip.

Mamu Loc: Just outside of Athens, Georgia U.S.A.

I'm only shooting 10MP which means my DNG files are <16.5MB. I can get around 60000 images on a 1TB Drive. For a small wedding I usually shoot about 600 frames (5 pro packs of 120 was my average back in the film days = 300 frames). That would give me around 99 weddings per TB. Even if your above 24MP, you're still talking about a gazillion frames. Something tells me that if you really feel the need to shoot tens of thousands of frames that you are "taking pictures" not a crime, of course. But if you can learn to start "making photographs" instead, your storage problem is gonna instantly disappear. Either you've got a really low keeper to crap ratio or you're one hell of a productive photographer. I shoot a lot of HDR 3 frame brackets and I have the same 32GB I've had for months. At only 10MP it's gonna take well over 15000 frames to fill up that card. If I only get 1 good image per 100 captures (after a 26 year photography career I can do a bit better than that) that's 1500 good images! I don't erase my SD cards anymore. I download everything into lightroom and if something should happen the original file is still where it's always been. Post edit, I upload to at least two cloud storage systems. So my images are #1 on the original SD card, #2 on the HD in my computer, #3 I save a backup of my edited images on an extra SD card and then upload to my Adobe Portfolio and 500px sites. When you're not shooting action or in rapidly changing light, try to relax and ponder your images a bit more. You don't have to capture every angle you look at. Move around and look for as many angles as you can find and then shoot the best. You're good image ratio is gonna go way up and your storage issues will disappear. Have a great trip!

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

Have fun and show us the pictures.

photonutt1970

I don't think that you will take enough pictures to use up 1 TB

Djedi

That's true- So the world might not know that he is on vacation and away from his house for a month and giving crooks free license to his home.

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

I hope you do not forget to do a back up on a second drive or the cloud.
I refuse to use the cloud. I hate Microsoft is why. Microsoft is too much of a monopoly.
A second set on a second drive could save you a lot of anguish later.

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

While I'm not a fan of cloud storage I believe it has its place. Refusing to use the cloud is too limiting, and Microsoft does not own the cloud. Apple has a significant cloud presence as does Adobe. And don't forget Google. Just because you might not like any of those choices, you shouldn't dismiss the cloud out of hand. There are advantages to using it.

10MPlayer Loc: California

1 TB = 1000 GB = 1000 GB X 1000 mb/GB = 1,000,000 mb per terabyte

Assume 1 photo = 30mb then 1,000,000mb/30mb/photo = 33,333 photos per TB of storage. I rounded up to 1TB for ease of calculation.

So unless you plan on shooting over 1000 photos per day during your 1 month trip you should be okay.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

The thing is that after years of photographing, your skills improve and you re-shoot subjects. We don't necessarily delete the older shots.

P.S. As another has said, A jpg can be much more than 1 MB.