A survey: How large is the hard drive(s) you use for photos?
Nov 13, 2018 07:06:41 #
Question: backup software - free and fee.
The 1-2-3 Backup Strategy is recommended as a minimum https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
I employ a 1) primary External Drive, 2) Apple Time Capsule for Time Machine backups and 3) Backblaze cloud. Like many UHH members I too cherish my photos and use 4) a 2nd portable drive to back up just my photos one additional place.
What software application (free and fee) do the group members recommend for backing up my primary external drive to the #4 backup location (monthly). Currently, I use (free) FileFreeSync but always have an interest in what UHH members use and have experience.
Thanks, Bogin Bob
The 1-2-3 Backup Strategy is recommended as a minimum https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
I employ a 1) primary External Drive, 2) Apple Time Capsule for Time Machine backups and 3) Backblaze cloud. Like many UHH members I too cherish my photos and use 4) a 2nd portable drive to back up just my photos one additional place.
What software application (free and fee) do the group members recommend for backing up my primary external drive to the #4 backup location (monthly). Currently, I use (free) FileFreeSync but always have an interest in what UHH members use and have experience.
Thanks, Bogin Bob
Nov 13, 2018 07:10:46 #
royden wrote:
My pics are on two 5 1/4 floppies.
In a RAID 1 configuration?
Nov 13, 2018 07:15:23 #
Mine are on Kodachrome slides stuffed in a shoe box safely stored in my closet. So far, no fading, so don't need no backup!
Nov 13, 2018 07:15:48 #
Nov 13, 2018 07:18:24 #
LA wrote:
I'll start.
3 TB drive, 50% full. Contains all of my photos which are backed up on three drives of equal size.
3 TB drive, 50% full. Contains all of my photos which are backed up on three drives of equal size.
I don’t use any drives exclusively for photos, but they sit on a 4TB drive, backed up to another external 4TB drive. In total, with SSD and spinning rust I have about 28TB.
I also store and backup digital music, DVDs, and Blu-rays. Disk is realtively cheap and content is king.
I use backup SW that came with some discs several years ago, and run incremental backups every day.
Nov 13, 2018 07:35:27 #
royden wrote:
My pics are on two 5 1/4 floppies.
Half- or full-height drives? I’ve moved to 3.5 floppies.
Nov 13, 2018 07:35:32 #
steve49
Loc: massachusetts
Wow, that's a lot of back up.
My desk top is 1t, laptop is 512g and I have a back up hard drive that is also 512g.
I try to cull pretty relentlessly after a trip.... I don't want to end up w 6t of stuff.
recent 2 week trip to France... I essentially filled a 16g card w raw images. culled them down to about 100 pics I wanted to back up and then backed up the jpegs after pp. Once in a while I go back to play w older material but not often enough to worry about the raw files that much.
My desk top is 1t, laptop is 512g and I have a back up hard drive that is also 512g.
I try to cull pretty relentlessly after a trip.... I don't want to end up w 6t of stuff.
recent 2 week trip to France... I essentially filled a 16g card w raw images. culled them down to about 100 pics I wanted to back up and then backed up the jpegs after pp. Once in a while I go back to play w older material but not often enough to worry about the raw files that much.
Nov 13, 2018 07:39:28 #
I just had a photography class last night on Digital Photography. Don't backup on a CD, DVD, Flash Drive etc! Only backup on several Hard Drives and the Cloud! Store the Hard Drives off site just in Case an Act of GOD!
Nov 13, 2018 07:44:33 #
nikonnate
Loc: Woodbury MN
I'm in process of building a photo-specific PC but it's going to run a 512GB SSD for software with a pair of 6TB storage drives in RAID 1. Finished JPEGs or TIFF files will be on an external 1TB. There's also online storage - I am working out what I want to do there yet.
Nov 13, 2018 07:44:46 #
Nov 13, 2018 07:52:00 #
After processing and sharing I move the folder to a 4tb external drive that is exclusively for photos. I don’t keep any processed photos on my computer’s internal drive (1tb ssd). I have another 2tb drive for carbon copy cloner and a 4tb drive for time machine. I also have an 8tb external drive that is redundant for everything - I recently purchased this as my other drives are over 5 years old and my internal drive recently failed - so in my opinion you need redundant back-ups.
Nov 13, 2018 08:03:55 #
winkleaf
Loc: Blue Bell, PA
I have 4 external hard-drives, 5TB, 3TB, and 2 with 2TB each, and an internal drive with 2TB dedicated to pictures and digital composites.
In addition, I have 2 LARGE boxes of negatives going back 50 years in Vienna, Austria.
In addition, I have 2 LARGE boxes of negatives going back 50 years in Vienna, Austria.
Nov 13, 2018 08:05:38 #
A 6TB netgear RAID in it's third upgrade. These Readynas units are great btw.
Nov 13, 2018 08:11:50 #
royden wrote:
My pics are on two 5 1/4 floppies.
Mine were also on two 5 1/4 inch floppies until I realized using floppies as coasters for my backup hard drives was really not helping. Floppies are a bit slippery and drives can slide off of them.
My working drive is a 1T external.
Nov 13, 2018 08:14:10 #
royden wrote:
Dang, I completely forgot about double sided. I could have kept a few more of my crummy images. 
Double density also?
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