Good luck putting that adapter in a laptop ;)

A double SSD holder plate is only part of the answer.... most if not all adapter plates will be for a standard desktop form factor... not for a laptop.... then as you said, good luck connecting a second drive to the mother board.

Most of the laptops I have dealt with only provide a connection for one slide in drive, no space for an adapter and no connection for a second disk.

Might be better to upgrade an old laptop with a new laptop with USB 3.1 or Thunderbolt and go with additional SSD's as externals if needed.

From experience with my iMac, an external SSD on USB 3.0 is usable, much faster than a normal spinning SATA drive, but the same SSD on Thunderbolt or USB 3.1 is even faster - getting to the maximum throughput for the SATA connection of the drive itself.

Yep, gotta give some scammers credit, they put quite a bit of work into their craft, unfortunately many assume it came in an email, it must be real.

I am still awaiting my 7 million dollars from the prince that contacted me years ago!

Good suggestion...

Agree... the original file is as taken by the camera, without any edits.... BUT... to further split hairs....since all camera's shoot in raw, then either write the raw file or write a processed JPG, depending on the photographer's preference.... is the JPG considered an original?

You are aware of course that hummingbirds have left the area a week or two back right?

Just waiting to take down the feeder for the year. I make my own nectar and change it often, cleaning the feeder each time.

I make use of Evernote to save web clippings as well as documents and pretty much anything, fully searchable and available to all my devices. I always keep pdf's of manuals and important info in Evernote.

There are loads of options these days.

Yellow Jackets on the feeder

by Donald Gallagher, on Flickr




Feeding the yellow jackets

by Donald Gallagher, on Flickr

At one time, hard drives, the big ones of 10 or 20 Megabytes, were much more sensitive to jostling...today, not so much. I remember needing to use software to park the heads of hard drives being needed to protect the hard drive before moving a PC.

My thought is, forget use of CD’s/DVD’s as a storage media...they did not live up to their hype in my experience.

Spreading thousands of images across multiple volumes (CD’s & DVD’s) makes for a nightmare to organize due to limited storage space per volume.

The cost of large external drives today is tiny. Buy large capacity drives for storage, and larger drives for backup, and maintain backups on cloud services. The local backups are your primary restore option, with a cloud backup in the event your local drives are unusable for some reason.

Settle on a storage format for your images that is not proprietary. Meaning it can be read by multiple types of software or operating systems.

FWIW: I keep all of my images on an external drive connected 24x7 to my iMac, I maintain a complete backup that runs hourly of my iMac on a 10 TB external connected 24x7. I run a separate backup of images and important data files on a 2 TB external connected only monthly for the backup. Lastly, I maintain a backup on Amazon Prime Photos of only my images. This backup runs every 30 minutes automatically.

My images are a mix of JPG files easily read on any computer by pretty much any operating system or editing software available, DNG files converted from the original Canon & Nikon raw files and the original Nikon & Canon raw files kept on a separate 2 TB external disk.

I make use of a Media Sonic “Probox” to hold 4 large sata drives using a single usb connection along with a sata dock holding two sata drives and Toshiba 2 TB usb drive that gets power from the usb connection.

For me, it is much easier to keep all my images in one catalog in Lightroom, close to 70,000 images, exporting as JPG when needed. Makes managing, editing & locating any image pretty simple and instantaneous.

If a primary drive goes bad, I can restore everything from my Time Machine backup disk, if the time machine disk goes bad, my originals are still intact, if I lose my TM disk and my originals, I can restore my images from my Toshiba 2 TB disk, if all my locals crap out, I can restore my images from my cloud storage site.

I do not worry about backing up applications as they can be reinstalled should I lose them at some point. Licensing is held either on the vendors site or in saved email communications.

Looks like you posted the Affinity file, so to view people must have Affinty... not everyone uses or has Affinity...

You would do better to export a JPG from Affinity and post the JPG image so people can view it directly.

FWIW:

I file all my images by date taken. All images are located within month-day folders under the year folders under a top level folder called pictures.

Lightroom takes care of placing new imports by year, month and day as well as renaming the files on import.

I make use of collections within Lightroom to group images together as well as add loads of keywords specific to each image, which allows sorting, searching and filtering of my images.

Right now I am closing in on 70,000 images in my catalog. Images are spread over 2 disks, I keep the 2-3 current years on an SSD for quicker access to editing.

All images are maintained with Lightroom, even if edited by other plugins, all editing begins and ends in Lightroom.

I also make use of Fast Raw Viewer to import only images that are worth keeping to edit into Lightroom.

Almost everyone forgets that the subscription includes the full, always current Photoshop as well as other software besides just Lightroom.

The other point of course is, sticking with an old unsupported version caps raw support, and limits functionality that newer updates added.

FWIW: I don’t want to smack my forehead and proclaim, “I could have had a V-8!”