John Luxton
Established Member
I am reaching the point where my 2TB hard drive on my main PC is nearly full.
Space started shrinking rapidly once I started shooting in DNG at the end of 2016 and using Lightroom to create jpgs.
As well as the DNG/RAW images I also have the outputted jpgs stored on the hard drive, along with most of my other jpg images since 2000!
I seriously need to rethink my storage strategy within the next few days before the 2022 shooting season gets underway.
In addition as the collection has grown backing up takes longer - I also keep multiple back ups on external drives.
My next step is to move my collection off the PC onto an an external drive. (I do not wish to use a cloud already get 1GB free as part of my Microsoft sub but any more has to be paid for.)
Basically I see my options are:
RAID drive which is an external comprising two disks which can be configured to mirror each other so that there is always a copy should one fail.
NAS Storage - multiple hard drives held in an enclosure
External SSD drives - no moving parts longer life - but higher prices per GB of storage.
If anyone has used SSD just how much faster are they compared to a standard USB external hard drive?
Just wondering what others facing the same dilemma have done?
John
Space started shrinking rapidly once I started shooting in DNG at the end of 2016 and using Lightroom to create jpgs.
As well as the DNG/RAW images I also have the outputted jpgs stored on the hard drive, along with most of my other jpg images since 2000!
I seriously need to rethink my storage strategy within the next few days before the 2022 shooting season gets underway.
In addition as the collection has grown backing up takes longer - I also keep multiple back ups on external drives.
My next step is to move my collection off the PC onto an an external drive. (I do not wish to use a cloud already get 1GB free as part of my Microsoft sub but any more has to be paid for.)
Basically I see my options are:
RAID drive which is an external comprising two disks which can be configured to mirror each other so that there is always a copy should one fail.
NAS Storage - multiple hard drives held in an enclosure
External SSD drives - no moving parts longer life - but higher prices per GB of storage.
If anyone has used SSD just how much faster are they compared to a standard USB external hard drive?
Just wondering what others facing the same dilemma have done?
John