How many raw files fit on 2TB hard drive?
Apr 25, 2022 06:35:32 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Remember your math class.
Just forgot that math class and buy an extra drive! Lol.
Apr 25, 2022 06:57:40 #
steve_stoneblossom
Loc: Rhode Island, USA
Gspeed wrote:
Can anyone estimate the amount? I have about 12K raw images. Will they all fit?
~ Eileen
~ Eileen
Where are all these images now? Assumiing they are in a folder on your computer, right click the folder and 'get info' on the folder will tell you the folder size.
Whichever size hard drive you decide, don't cheap out on quality. As they say, it's not IF your drive will fail, it's when. Have at least one backup, either online or physical. Three copies is best, but two is minimum.
Do you only save the raw images? If you convert some or all of them to JPEG or other format, you'll need space for that, too.
Apr 25, 2022 07:06:43 #
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Apr 25, 2022 07:15:48 #
Gspeed wrote:
Sure. I’m using the Nikon D610. My goal is to corral all the photos (desktop, etc.) into one place.
Thank you! The D610 largest raw file is the lossless compressed 14 bit file (it doesn't have the uncompressed file) is 25.4MB and thus the 2TB drive would hold about 78000 of these files.
Apr 25, 2022 07:34:26 #
Gspeed wrote:
Can anyone estimate the amount? I have about 12K raw images. Will they all fit?
~ Eileen
~ Eileen
This goes beyond the question asked. I store raw files on my external hard drive but I also store post processed files. A single raw file from my Nikon D850 fully processed on Photoshop is often 500-600MB. Those files fill up a 2 TB external hard drive pretty quickly.
Apr 25, 2022 08:04:43 #
Gspeed wrote:
Can anyone estimate the amount? I have about 12K raw images. Will they all fit?
~ Eileen
~ Eileen
You don't need an estimate, you know the exact amount of space needed. If you already have 12,000 RAW files, just look at the directories wherever you have stored them and you will see the space taken. Unless you purposely have directed them somewhere else, your system automatically puts them in "Pictures" on Drive C:. In any event, you can add up the sizes of the file groupings, and unless your Drive C: is larger than is customary for a normal home computer, they easily will fit on your 2TB drive - with a LOT of space left over.
Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City
Apr 25, 2022 08:06:29 #
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Apr 25, 2022 08:42:11 #
fetzler
Loc: North West PA
CHG_CANON wrote:
Check your camera manual. Nearly all will give you the file sizes by format. You can determine from there. My 24MP Sony is giving 25MB files. Pixels to bytes are not 1:1, this just happened to be for this camera and RAW. This file size would by 80,000 files into 2TB. A gig is 1,000 MB, so 2,000,000 is your 2TB drive. Divided by 25MB gets to 80,000 files.
Isn't math a wonderful thing.
Apr 25, 2022 09:09:06 #
User ID's comments, for the most part, meets the definition of the nautical term, dunsel.
--Bob
--Bob
Just Shoot Me wrote:
Hey, Nice reply,
First-"His" name is Eileen (That's the OP)
Second-Maybe you should research things before you comment.
Third-Maybe someone was just looking for help to figure things out. The basis of this website. To help fellow
photographers. I don't comment on many subjects but I read and learn in silence. Something you should do!
First-"His" name is Eileen (That's the OP)
Second-Maybe you should research things before you comment.
Third-Maybe someone was just looking for help to figure things out. The basis of this website. To help fellow
photographers. I don't comment on many subjects but I read and learn in silence. Something you should do!
Apr 25, 2022 09:16:21 #
Eileen, it looks like you'd be using less than 1/2 the storage space of that drive.
--Bob
--Bob
Gspeed wrote:
Can anyone estimate the amount? I have about 12K raw images. Will they all fit?
~ Eileen
~ Eileen
Apr 25, 2022 09:18:15 #
I don't think it's any issue here, as the raws are large, but drives do have a minium file size used also. So a thousand small files, say 1k can take as much space as a thousand 10 k files. Also drive space is used for overhead so drives don't hold labelled size as data.
Apr 25, 2022 09:35:25 #
Gspeed wrote:
Can anyone estimate the amount? I have about 12K raw images. Will they all fit?
~ Eileen
~ Eileen
This sounds like a math problem from when I was a kid.
Question 1. If Photographer Joe has a 2TB hard drive, and his camera takes pictures measuring 12K, how many pictures can Photographer Joe fit onto the drive?
Answer: 2 TB = 2,000,000,000 KB / 12 = 166,666,666.6666667
Question 2. How many Nikon D850 cameras would Photographer Joe have to buy in order to take 166,666,666.6666667 pictures?"
Answer: 166,666,666.6666667 / 200,000 = 834
Question 3. At about $3,000 each, how much will Photographer Joe have to spend on cameras?
Answer: 3,000 X 834 = $2,502,000
Question 4. How likely is it that a photographer would have $2,502,000 to spend on cameras?
Answer:
My math might be off a bit here, but it was a fun exercise.
Apr 25, 2022 09:43:59 #
Greg from Romeoville illinois
Loc: Romeoville illinois
Gspeed wrote:
Can anyone estimate the amount? I have about 12K raw images. Will they all fit?
~ Eileen
~ Eileen
It depends on the individual picture that you take and whether you use 12 bit or 14 bit lossless compression, but you asked for an estimate.
At 14 bit your photo size is approximately 29.2 so rounded 30 MB. multiply 30 x 12,000 and you get 360 GB. Or to put it another way, 2 TB / 30MB will let you store 66,000 pictures. Good enough for 2 more years?
Apr 25, 2022 10:00:54 #
Gspeed wrote:
Can anyone estimate the amount? I have about 12K raw images. Will they all fit?
~ Eileen
~ Eileen
Depending on the average size of you photos, it cold many more than you think. I have around 90K images of varying sizes (RAW and jpg from cameras with 6, 12 and 24 MP sensors) on a 1TB drive plus several other miscellaneous files and I am using bout 90% of its capacity.
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