Brucer Loc: Bedminster, NJ

Hi, I'm new to the Ugly Hedgehog and excited to learn important new information. I'm working on a new operating system with some kick to handle Nikon D850 files, and I'm trying to back my feeling that it is better to invest in a Microsoft Office Personal 365 account, rather than buy a key for a Microsoft Office Home and Business 2019 set-up. I can use the 5GB free One Drive for developed jpgs I send to magazine editors. I freelance. (I can always move images out of One Drive and back to folders and back to my 480GB external drive, also, to keep that total within 5GB.) But I'm thinking, with 1T One Drive storage using 365, my storage options might be significantly improved. Not to mention, as an aside, that I'm almost finished a hybrid memoir/how-to book on trout fishing, and finding an agent who will take any interest in me will be difficult, if not a failure, don't know. 365 comes with Publisher, and self-publishing is no longer vanity. So I'm also wondering if anyone here on Hedgehog knows of any synergy between Publisher and the improved functionality of One Drive through 365. I would want to illustrate my book. Finally, does One Drive support D850 RAW. Want to spell this out, just in case. Thanks for any help you may offer.

Brucer Loc: Bedminster, NJ

A little more about myself and photography. (I was feeling mighty pressed to get some form of Microsoft Office on my new computer.) I began shooting at age 9. On a Kodak Instamatic, believe was the name. Felt such a rush of excitement. At 16, I bought a Pentax K-1000. I owned four of those in total for many years, three of them stolen. I have shots framed on my walls. Even two or three shots framed I took with throw-away cameras, during the interim between my third and fourth K-1000, when I couldn't afford another K-1000 just yet. Moved on to Nikon D60. Strapped to my neck, I took a headlong spill with it into the Salmon River, NY. Moved on to Nikon D7100. After three years, I was able to afford Nikon D850, but after almost exactly a year, I got tipped out of a kayak with that strapped to my neck--unfortunately into salt water. My second Nikon D850--refurbished--is currently in warranty repair. Mostly, I shoot outdoors. Landscape, waterscape, close-up nature shots, fish photos. I do like city-scapes when I get the chance. I don't exclude subjects, I just absorb most of my interest in outdoor photography. Very ambitious. But I try to stay realistic about whatever talent I have. Not all that tech-savvy, no, but eager to learn what I can. I have a feel for composition. It's like prayer called upon in the moment and answered when I look at the shot.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I use several drives for backup and one for photos that I process. I do use a D850, but only for photo outings. My daily carry camera is a D800e. Both are set to capture RAW and no compression.
--Bob

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

OneDrive probably has a storage limit unless you pay, and I don't know if they store raw files uncompressed. I wouldn't want to have my only backup be off-site. I use two external drives and a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to backup seven folders.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

If I understand OP correctly,

1. He will purchase Microsoft Personal Office 365.

2. This will give him 1TB of “One Drive” space.

Jrhoffman75 Loc: Conway, New Hampshire

The primary feature of OneDrive is access on multiple devices. Items you place in your OneDrive folder on your computer are uploaded to the cloud. They can then be accessed in from a different device that has OneDrive installed. Satellite devices can be configured to download everything or select files/folders.

It is a backup, but won’t save storage space on the primary computer.

Files are files as far as OneDrive is concerned. No problem with your Nikon files.

ELNikkor

Welcome to the forum, Brucer! Sounds like you love the outdoors and photography/writing/publishing. This is a great site for advice, hope you get the answers you are looking for. Be sure and share some of those amazing shots you take in your adventures.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Right, 1 TB, and when that is used up, he would have to buy more. My backup files are approaching 3 TB.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

In my case, I use “One Drive” only for sharing with our daughters, so every time I come close to my limit I have to delete something.

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

Would suggest that in addition to your backup external drive and anything you do with One Drive, you invest in a true cloud backup account. There are many out there to choose from. I use and prefer iDrive because of the huge amount of storage for very small dollars, it works well and has a large number of options and configurations available. It can backup any of your photo files as well as anything else you want backed up.

Schoee Loc: Europe

The 365 subscription gives you 5 licences so all your family can have 1TB too. Or you can just create multiple accounts for yourself (need a different email for each I think) then you can have 5 x 1 TB storages. Also now you can pay to extend to 2 TB but I don't think there are any options to pay for larger than that.
There is no problem with storing .NEF files in OneDrive, I do it.
You can have folders on your local drive that automatically sync with OneDrive so it acts as a backup and allows you to access those files from anywhere. Or you can just have a folder on OneDrive where you put things and in that case it does not take up room on your local drive.
I agree with others who say this should not be your only backup, but it is a good one to have.

bschafer

If you have Amazon Prime unlimited photo storage (including raw files) is part of the package

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

Give DropBox a careful look.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I wondered about how they dealt with raw. Good to know. It seems that pictures I take with my phone wind up there automatically. I don't think I want to burden them with my thousands of pictures.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

If you have fast internet, any cloud-based storage is a good method of transferring files to clients, temporary storage or, if you use the back up clouds like Carbonite, Backblaze and Crashplan - good for long term storage - with the caveat that if they go belly up you could lose a whole lotta files. Nothing substitutes for self-managed backup and archiving with redundancy - triple backup.