paparazzinick Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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Ricardo- hell no would I ever use my internal drive as main storage. I use it as my working drive and once the project is edited, I remove it. I have 3 drobos and cloud storage that I use to store everything. I only use my internal drive for working. It only ever has 1-3 jobs on it at a time while I edit them. This year though, I'm going to be busier than ever, so I'll have 5-10 jobs on it at a time. I'm never at my desk to edit since I have 2 kids and they are always involved in something. I take my laptop with me and edit when I can and where I can. So bringing a drobo with me isn't always an option. So I need a fast internal that can hold a decent amount of work for me to do. Each wedding I shoot is between 40-60 gigs. That will quickly fill up a drive that only 250 or 500.
As for retirement for my computers. Every 3 years or so I replace one of my main machines with something new. The machine that is replaced then goes to my wife. She's a teacher and just needs email, web and apps to do her lesson plans. So she is good with it for another 3-4 years for her basic needs. The computer she is using now is 6 almost 7 years old. When she gets my old computer then her old computer gets moved to our office and is used as an in house server where we have 2 drobos and 2 printers attached. It serves it purpose there to push files around and print stuff. That machine in our office now is almost 10 years old and runs like a champ. But it would never handle editing anymore. Heck, the Mac my wife uses that's almost 7 years old couldn't handle editing with the new LR and the big raw files I have.
So, that's why I upgrade my main machine every 3 years. I get new cameras often so the newer and bigger files need a better machin to handle them. In the past 3-4 years, technology has advanced so much that there really isn't much difference between generation to generation of Intel chips. Now I have gen 3 and going to gen 5 isn't enough increase. Maybe 25-30% increase. Getting a faster drive will give me about 10-15% increase. So that's enough for a small amount of money invested. Now when gen 6 is available in macs, then the increase should be 50% or more. That's when it is worth it to upgrade.
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