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p.4 #4 · p.4 #4 · Does more resolution on full frame cameras even matter? | |
matejphoto wrote:
Just out of curiosity:
How many images do you take a year?
How many do you end up after culling?
I hear it all the time that storage is cheap but for me personally, keeping up with archiving is significant amount of work (and I only have 80D and 5dm2). I guess I need to up my game with respect to disk space and performance.
I take between 5,000 and 20,000 a year, averaging (this is eyeballing it) around 12-13,000 images. I likely delete fewer than 1% of those images. I process perhaps 25-30% of those images.
All these images live in a single Lightroom library on a 5TB 7200 HDD that is roughly half-full. I backup the master RAW files (organized by date) along with the current library to an external drive of the same size after nearly ever SD->Computer dump. I backup my library (edits, etc) to the cloud weekly, or after any paid job or important shoot.
In addition, once or twice a year I do a total backup-- and often cycle in new drives-- and store those full backups off-site (on another continent, not that this is necessarily by design/desire).
Mind you, I keep my video files on 2x3TB drives in the computer in RAID. Similar backup scheme. I have two bootable Mac OS system SSDs, with one my daily boot (so that I can test all upgrades before upgrading the daily boot). And I keep a Windows SSD for those rare times I need something special I can only do there (haven't booted it in 6 months).
I basically keep everything. I post a lot of images online at small size. I submit a lot of assignments to editors. I print.
Keeping up with archiving is basically down to risk tolerance. The more frequently you archive, and the more places you archive-- the lower your risk. Shelling out $100-$200 a year for that feels worth it to me. Shelling out $1K doesn't really.
My ideal archiving would include full-master, incremental (say, weekly + manual) backups to the cloud. I haven't taken that leap because of a number of issues that aren't clear to me yet: total cost, first backup speed (some companies let you send in a physical drive), total download speed, security in transit and storage, ongoing bandwidth and scheduling.
It's the way of the future, I think. But I'm not ready. In the meantime, cycling and or accumulating archives at friends/family feels like a good alternative every 6 months or so.
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