When does it stop?

[Brazosgrad]

Damn digital cameras are killing me. Many of you know I'm a sometime portrait photographer on the side and my camera creates 18 megapixel images. Between my family photos and my portrait work, the hard drive space is getting up there. I'm adding another hard drive to my system, a 3 TB Seagate drive, basically acting as a backup for my existing drives, bringing me to about 7.8 TB. I need a less expensive hobby... I don't have it raided or anything...I just keep duplicate copies of the drives. I've ordered a hot swap bay so that I can insert and remove drives too. Any better ideas out there? This is way too much data to be uploading. And don't even ask me to remove those photos of Ripley, Fred, and that Haas fella.

[CommanderOtto]

are you sure all those terabytes are pictures or backups of pictures? You probably have tons of music, videos and computer programs isntalled.

but I guess I would print the pictures so that you wouldn't need to have a backup. Also, consider using skydrive or dropbox. I think you can pay a small quantity to have extra space and not buy a another drive.

[Darth Crater]

Most online drive services are too small (Dropbox only gives ~2GB free), and then there's the long upload time. I can't really think of a more efficient format than a hard drive, sorry.

[Brazosgrad]

Actually, no, I have it divided out somewhat logically. Windows is on a 300GB drive. Family photos are on a 1.5 TB drive. Business photos are on another 1.5 TB drive. All other data, email, music, etc, is on a 500 GB drive. All of that gets duplicated and is what the new 3TB drive is for. That frees up 800 GB from two other drives that I'll clean off and re-use either in the hotswap drive bay, or on the kids' computer. Like I said, I know it isn't raid, but it's what I've got to work with right now. I just need a really good wedding and then I can get a 10 TB raid box I guess.

Advice: Don't start up a photo business. It's like a pregnant feline...

[CommanderOtto]

Most online drive services are too small (Dropbox only gives ~2GB free), and then there's the long upload time. I can't really think of a more efficient format than a hard drive, sorry.

but wait, I thought you could pay for more? 2gb is obviously nothing, but if you pay for more, i'm sure it would be cheaper than buying a 1 tera drive all the time. And yeah dropbox is not good. Go to http://www.box.com

"Securely share, access and collaborate on important content anywhere, anytime, from any device."

1000 GB of storage
256-Bit Encryption
Comprehensive security
for mobile devices
Administrative Console
Role-based Permissioning
Extensibility and 3rd-party Integrations

Indiana University gives me a free 50gb account. I use it for keeping research pdf's and stuff... it's very quick in the upload (usually one second for word documents, 20 seconds for pdf's 1000 pages long)

[Darth Crater]

You can get 500 GB for $50/month. That's $300/month just to store the photos - for $300 you can just get a hard drive large enough for them all and skip the weeks of uploading to the cloud.

EDIT in response to your edit - that looks like a better deal than DropBox. Still requires uploading, though.

[CommanderOtto]

You can get 500 GB for $50/month. That's $300/month just to store the photos - for $300 you can just get a hard drive large enough for them all and skip the weeks of uploading to the cloud.

EDIT in response to your edit - that looks like a better deal than DropBox. Still requires uploading, though.

true I didn't do the calculations! but if someone is desperate, box only costs 15 bucks per month for 1000gb. And this service is very quick in uploads. As I said in the last edit, only 1 second for most things (some photos and documents). If it's a video it might take 2 minutes.

https://www.box.com/pricing/

[Darth Crater]

On my connection I get at best 100 kB/s upload. From a very quick, rough estimation (might have dropped a zero in either direction), that's around 100 days per terabyte.

[CommanderOtto]

or from now on braz could keep his new pictures in facebook (and lock the album so only he can see it)...and tadaa, unlimited space. I wouldn't recommend passing all the teras you have though... just add the new photos into facebook from now on so you don't jump off a cliff, desperate because of the facebook upload times

[Dad]

Damn digital cameras are killing me. Many of you know I'm a sometime portrait photographer on the side and my camera creates 18 megapixel images. Between my family photos and my portrait work, the hard drive space is getting up there. I'm adding another hard drive to my system, a 3 TB Seagate drive, basically acting as a backup for my existing drives, bringing me to about 7.8 TB. I need a less expensive hobby... I don't have it raided or anything...I just keep duplicate copies of the drives. I've ordered a hot swap bay so that I can insert and remove drives too. Any better ideas out there? This is way too much data to be uploading. And don't even ask me to remove those photos of Ripley, Fred, and that Haas fella.

7.8 terabytes?! Holy effin crap I'm behind on this stuff!

Pics of that Haas fella have been known to cause adverse effects on the central nervous system.