A survey: How large is the hard drive(s) you use for photos?
Nov 13, 2018 08:14:10 #
Picture Taker
Loc: Michigan Thumb
I use 8TB hard drives, infilled up my 4's. About 10 years ago I lost a hard drive and was never retrieved. I now have 2 sets of hard drives, each set is one drives is by date (Today is 181113 year , month, day) as taken in RAW and JPG the other is my finished pictures (as processed) by location or any identified name. Two set in two locations. Dumb may be but, I'm going to loose them again.
Nov 13, 2018 08:17:53 #
Nov 13, 2018 08:20:35 #
billpilot
Loc: Baltimore County, MD
A 2 T hard drive located in a fireproof box under my desk plus Carbonite
Nov 13, 2018 08:20:53 #
Nov 13, 2018 08:34:19 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
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.
For photographs, one 5Tb external drive backed up to five Drobo backup drives, one of which is rotated between home and my bank safe deposit box. My computers internal drives, which only contain programs, photo files that I am currently working on and other miscellaneous data are backed up to separate 4Tb external drives using Time Machine. That is a total of two internal drives and seven external drives.
Nov 13, 2018 09:07:24 #
Nov 13, 2018 09:08:04 #
Well... I have 7 drives. A 256tb to boot, 2tb main drive, 4ea. - 4tb storage drives 2 internal and 2 external, and a 3tb external. And a note about externals. External drives can have weak power supplies so if one fails cut it out of its case and mount it internally. I have saved a couple of bad externals that way. I have only lost one drive in my many years of computing. I back up monthly all my pictures to a separate drive. So one 4tb drive is my backup.
Nov 13, 2018 09:15:38 #
Nov 13, 2018 09:16:05 #
Nov 13, 2018 09:18:56 #
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 TB 50% full just for 2015-now. 2001-2014 mostly fill another 1TB drive that is in the safe. Both are double backed up to Nas1 on desktop.
Nov 13, 2018 09:26:15 #
Bugs wrote:
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!
I forgot. I have those, too! No backups!
Nov 13, 2018 09:27:40 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
My question is we all have big TB hard drives in multiples. Good.
But these drives depend on computers to recover our work.
Interesting with tech friend about our thinking on the adobe software
suite. We think that if we quit will we still be able to use our older versions of
Photoshop to recover newer files. I thought of CDRoms but they are becoming obselete.
My Apple video editing Final Cut Pro is superb software as is adobe Premiere.
They have made great upgrades. But newer versions say FCPX will have to update
year old work to function with the new version. Aperture just cancelled itself.
It requires software to open these images and video. And operating systems.
Our suppliers are constantly changing software and formats.
My family went to a house in the mountains this past summer.
My grandaughter a very smart 11 year old said Grandpa what is this?
It was a princess wall land line phone. We all laughed.
But these drives depend on computers to recover our work.
Interesting with tech friend about our thinking on the adobe software
suite. We think that if we quit will we still be able to use our older versions of
Photoshop to recover newer files. I thought of CDRoms but they are becoming obselete.
My Apple video editing Final Cut Pro is superb software as is adobe Premiere.
They have made great upgrades. But newer versions say FCPX will have to update
year old work to function with the new version. Aperture just cancelled itself.
It requires software to open these images and video. And operating systems.
Our suppliers are constantly changing software and formats.
My family went to a house in the mountains this past summer.
My grandaughter a very smart 11 year old said Grandpa what is this?
It was a princess wall land line phone. We all laughed.
Nov 13, 2018 09:28:00 #
Peterff wrote:
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.
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.
What’s a spinning rust?
Nov 13, 2018 09:30:44 #
On the computer I have a 2 Tb D drive, with probably close to 1000 GB of pictures. That is constantly synced with a Synology NAS- with 3 TB redundant drives (that is 3/4 full). All of my pictures are also backed up offsite on Amazon AWS cloud.
But I need to do a better job (like mwsilvers) of culling out the stuff that NEEDS to be deleted...
But I need to do a better job (like mwsilvers) of culling out the stuff that NEEDS to be deleted...
Nov 13, 2018 09:43:45 #
royden wrote:
My pics are on two 5 1/4 floppies.
Just for "real life" it would take 38 disks (the 1.44 MB ones in the plastic case) to hold ONE raw image from my Nikon D850.
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