If you’ve followed my blog posts, you know that I much prefer storing digital files than dealing with boxes of paper (print) photos. But digital photo and video file storage can take up a lot of disk space on your computer, especially if you’re like me and shoot in camera raw and never delete any photo or video files!
This week it was time for me to take some action – my 2 TB external computer drive was full. I take about 5,000 photos per year, and up to this time I had been filing all of my photos and edited files on the 2 TB drive and backing them up to (a what shall go unnamed) cloud service at a cost of $12 per month. I decided to purchase 2 Seagate Backup Plus 5 TB capacity external hard drives at Costco and use one for file storage and the other for backup. I rationalized that by cancelling my cloud service, the new backup drive would pay for itself in one year.
It was important to me to have all of my photos and videos stored on the same drive for easier access, so the first step was to copy the 100K+ files on my old 2 TB drive the new 5 TB storage drive. This step took 30 hours! Once I was sure the files had successfully transferred, I then deleted the files from my old 2 TB drive and used it to backup my Windows “file history” so that I wouldn’t lose any important files or documents stored on my computer’s internal hard drive if it crashed.
So I now have an additional 3 TB of added file storage space available for photos and videos. By the time I fill up that space there will likely be new technology for file storage, or I will have reached the point where advancing age will dictate restrictions on my pursuit of photography. Until that time comes, I will continue to shoot, learn, and have fun!
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