I agree that storage is affordable these days, but I find that deleting non-keepers is less of a time waster than sorting through all the rejects when trying to find a certain image.
What do you do with all your RAWS?
- Thread starter WhiteLight
- Start date
I agree that storage is affordable these days, but I find that deleting non-keepers is less of a time waster than sorting through all the rejects when trying to find a certain image.
Good or bad jpg's I keep - kind of a timeline to show me just how rubbish my pics were and how they improved over time (or in the same outing).
RAWs I delete the total useless ones. The good ones I have kept so that one day I can work on them, as I don't do a lot of PP at the moment.
All my files are on my PC (mixture of nine drives adding up to just over 2.5TB), and from the RAID 1 drive containing all my personal files, they are backed up to my personal/home server (3.5TB) once a week, and that's backed up to an external 2TB drive which is then kept in a fire proof safe (unfortunately not off site).
RAWs I delete the total useless ones. The good ones I have kept so that one day I can work on them, as I don't do a lot of PP at the moment.
All my files are on my PC (mixture of nine drives adding up to just over 2.5TB), and from the RAID 1 drive containing all my personal files, they are backed up to my personal/home server (3.5TB) once a week, and that's backed up to an external 2TB drive which is then kept in a fire proof safe (unfortunately not off site).
One common thing I've noticed in this thread is that everyone is talking about LOCAL storage. Is anyone backing up to the cloud or taking a backup somewhere other than where the pictures are physically stored? Disasters are rare, but do occur. If the drive(s) that you are depending on for your pictures (in some cases, livelihood) are physically destroyed you have lost years or decades of work in a few minutes.
I have 30 years in IT (dating from high school working with Apple Lisas and TRS-80s) and have seen this occur. While you think you're safe with your RAID1/5/10 storage array, all it takes is an instant to destroy a life's work. If you are not backing things up offsite, you should definitely look into it, even if it's just buying another drive, copying everything to it, and sticking it in a drawer at a relative or neighbor's house.
I have 30 years in IT (dating from high school working with Apple Lisas and TRS-80s) and have seen this occur. While you think you're safe with your RAID1/5/10 storage array, all it takes is an instant to destroy a life's work. If you are not backing things up offsite, you should definitely look into it, even if it's just buying another drive, copying everything to it, and sticking it in a drawer at a relative or neighbor's house.
I agree - local drives will die, get destroyed etc.
Like I said in my post, I keep an external copy of my most precious data on a drive in a fireproof safe, the only issue being it's not offsite, but should the worst happen, the safe should hold out
For me, cloud storage is fine for those everyday use documents etc you access, but for storage it's a pain. For starters you have to upload GBs of data to them which could takes days, weeks or even months depending on your connection. On top of that, what assurances do you have that your data will be there in 1,5,10 years, or even if the company has an issue and loses your data, where do you go to for another copy if they don't have a backup?!
Not been in the IT game as long as you Dervari, but 15 years of it certainly makes you think long and hard about backup solutions
Like I said in my post, I keep an external copy of my most precious data on a drive in a fireproof safe, the only issue being it's not offsite, but should the worst happen, the safe should hold out
For me, cloud storage is fine for those everyday use documents etc you access, but for storage it's a pain. For starters you have to upload GBs of data to them which could takes days, weeks or even months depending on your connection. On top of that, what assurances do you have that your data will be there in 1,5,10 years, or even if the company has an issue and loses your data, where do you go to for another copy if they don't have a backup?!
Not been in the IT game as long as you Dervari, but 15 years of it certainly makes you think long and hard about backup solutions