dyximan

I am considering upgrading to High sierra from Sierra, I have had problems in the past when doing so, accessing my photos and not being able to use my printer. Has any one made this move and what problems have you had if any, if so how easy or hard were they to resolve. and was it worth it?

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I'm planning on it, but not until I purchase some RAID drives and back up my photographs and a few documents.
--Bob

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

I have three Macs and have upgraded them all from various levels of 10.x to High Sierra (10.13) without any issues.

pesfls Loc: Oregon, USA

I am using High Sierra without problems of any kind. They said it's security features were helpful to them when some jerk tried to hack our computer and get info from it. They made the problem go away in short order. Don't ask how/why but that is what occurred.

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

Using High Sierra without encountering issues.

dyximan

That was part of my reasoning aswell as I am planning on upgrading my printer and external hard drives and am considering a Raid aswell, but some have told me to just get 2 external drives and put one offsite and only update to it perodicly in the event of a fire whatever that way you would only loose a weeks worth or so. As the Raid has a backup to itself but if there is a fire both are gone the primary and secondary.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Or you could set up an automatic backup nightly to ICloud or another major cloud provider assuming you have decent internet access.

dyximan

I have good Internet but I exceed the storage Of 2 TB already with my photos according to the Apple Care associate I spoke with today

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

In that case Amazon S3 Glacier may be a good option to investigate - $4.00 per TB per month with as much storage as you need (and can afford). Amazon S3 has multiple levels of storage, and Glacier is the least expensive, but it is designed for a DR (disaster recovery) archive. If you need to access your data frequently and use it as interactive storage with regular downloads, then a more expensive tier would be a better choice. Note that you can move data between tiers, so if you segregate your data into directories (folders), you could move anything you need to access regularly to a higher tier without moving the remaining bulk of your data.

If you’re going to use the cloud to archive, you might want to consider paring the data down a bit, because even with a fast pipe, it’s going to take quite awhile to upload (seed) 2TB into the cloud, although daily incremental uploads would be much smaller after the initial seeding. Alternately, you might consider a provider that will allow you to seed the data using a HD that you send to them. If neither of those are possibilities, then an alternate backup strategy with an off-site copy may be a better (and less expensive) alternative.

Brent Rowlett Loc: Atlanta, GA

I habitually burn projects, assignments, and trips to DVDs, keep all old photography off of the computers for maximum speed.

Don’t want anything to do with the cloud BS. External drives are cheap to buy and store backup data.

John Howard Loc: SW Florida and Blue Ridge Mountains of NC.

I also believe the computer boots up in less time even with my messy desktop.

spraguead Loc: Boston, MA

Always back up your computer, you should have an external drive two times your internal hard drive size that is just running Tim machine i the background. Make sure there is a fresh backup completed before updating system software.

Also, consider dumping photos off the system to external hard drives. They're pretty cheap now, I try to keep two different drives that have the same files just for protection.

Martino Loc: Northwest Florida

No problems at all. Installed perfectly and easily on my mid 2011 iMac 27”.

dyximan

I presently have one terabyte on the computer and to external hard drive’s each 2 TB. One for my photos one for Time Machine Time Machine is about half-full the other is completely full. And I did this in about three years so I’m going to look into a pair of 8 TB external hard drive’s one for home one to be taken off site. As I looked into the cloud and it has a 2 TB Max according to the AppleCare customer service rep

bikertut Loc: Kingsville, MO

I agree. I always backup to time machine, then eject the time machine drive, then upgrade. After the up grade I do some preliminary checking to see if things are functioning properly. If so, then I reconnect the time Machine drive.

No problems going to High Sierra on either of my old Macs.