Photos. Thousands of them. All backed up as well. RAW to TIFF + Jpgs. I also do Textured images. So now we have a Folder of RAW+Tiffs + Jpgs + Textured images when I do them. So I go out once a week to take photos and that's a Load of Photos since 2002. I Deleted all my Slides and NEGS as my Digital took off and got better. I'm a member of 3 camera clubs, + RPS, +PAGB. It is my Hobby and it keeps my Dementia to a bear minimum so far as it keeps my Brain Active. I have promised myself over the last 5 years so start Deleting all those I do not use. But being a Lazy sod I not done it yet. Maybe one day soon.
I have a nvme 1TB WD for my OS
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You need to curate your stuff, delete what's not needed and consolidate the remaining stuff onto a more meaningful number of drives.
t's time to bin off HDDs in favour of SSDs. As far as I am concerned for my own uses, large SSDs have taken over and I only have a single large external HDD for backups and everything internal is SSD. I will get another 8TB SSD and put it in a USB 3 shell at some point and get rid of that single external HDD but HDDs are obsolete by all measures, and they're slow to read, write and access.
My primary work is photos (RAW files) for working in Lightroom. For that the 8TB SATA 3 SSD works perfectly. Yeah they are still expensive, but they are much more efficient and light years ahead in terms of speed and latency. Also draw less power and a longer overall reliability.
t's time to bin off HDDs in favour of SSDs. As far as I am concerned for my own uses, large SSDs have taken over and I only have a single large external HDD for backups and everything internal is SSD. I will get another 8TB SSD and put it in a USB 3 shell at some point and get rid of that single external HDD but HDDs are obsolete by all measures, and they're slow to read, write and access.
My primary work is photos (RAW files) for working in Lightroom. For that the 8TB SATA 3 SSD works perfectly. Yeah they are still expensive, but they are much more efficient and light years ahead in terms of speed and latency. Also draw less power and a longer overall reliability.
OH GOSH!! mrk.. I will never spend that much on a SSD..Bad enough buying my new PC and new Monitor mun. lol..I know where you coming from though, but the cost is too costly on my Pension. Spent out for a while now. I'll probably buy a large HDD for Xmas and I will start culling my images soon. My biggest problem is my Hard Drives start from 1TB to 3TB to 4TB. So I think a 6 or 8TB might be the way to go. But not SSD. But you never know what 2023 might bring me.
I wanted to freshen up my storage and erase and dump my oldest drives. I'll do the same with oldest desktops get rid of them. I'm decluttering.
So I bought a machine with NVME slots to act as media server, backup, light gaming machine. I bought one 1TB for the OS as it made no sense to go smaller. There's no penalty for keeping a project folder on the OS drive. It's backed up, so can wipe it at anytime. Working off NVME or SSDs is so much faster.
I'm finding any SSD smaller than 256 not useful. So I'll wipe the smaller ones.
As with Russ the most of my storage is media and photos. Most of mine fits on one 4 or 5 TB drive. So I'm get rid of older smaller mechanical drives. Just keeping 4TB or bigger.
Most of my storage is external as I mostly work off the laptop.
So I bought a machine with NVME slots to act as media server, backup, light gaming machine. I bought one 1TB for the OS as it made no sense to go smaller. There's no penalty for keeping a project folder on the OS drive. It's backed up, so can wipe it at anytime. Working off NVME or SSDs is so much faster.
I'm finding any SSD smaller than 256 not useful. So I'll wipe the smaller ones.
As with Russ the most of my storage is media and photos. Most of mine fits on one 4 or 5 TB drive. So I'm get rid of older smaller mechanical drives. Just keeping 4TB or bigger.
Most of my storage is external as I mostly work off the laptop.
I Hope you be correct on that, though I think not. My big problem with very large HDD is I do not trust them. Fancy losing 8TB of Photos. It would devastate me. Feeling rather apprehensive about buying a 5 or 6TB HDD. Time will tell and I'm in no hurry to buy one just yet. Next year possibly.
What do you do with the Old Drives once you wiped them clean?? I have wiped a few 1TB drives and just like my Old Desktops I built myself via OCUK they be cluttering up my room. Problem these days is that Technology has taken off big time and no one wants to buy an OLD AMD system or intel system with just 4GB RAM that you can't add to. So I now got Three old Tower Systems as I just replaced my old Aldi 4GB Medion with the new i7 12700k and MSI board. Plus I got boxes of cables for PSU's etc going to waste. Not to mention the IDE cables and DVD/CD Drives. I just replaced a Sony DVD/CDR drive as laser went on it with one of my Older NEC 350A but I had to buy a SATA to IDE in order to use it. It Works great. I will miss using my New PC with NO Drives on the front. That's progress I suppose. I got a 17" HP Laptop but I rarely use it these days. HDD, I have too many small ones from 1TB to 4TB. 1xssd in my Zalman Case along with 4 x HDD. Those Hard drives are backed up to 4 others in a External Enterprise case. Then a 4x Yottamaster with 4 drives in there. Plus a 1TB in my NAS drive as the 3tb Seagate that was in there packed up on me and I lost a ton of stuff on it. Thankfully that was backed up to another drive...YES! I do have too many drives and I must cut down on them. Once my new monitor arrives today I'll have a Redundant 22" Samsung on my hands. It's never Ending..LOL
Same here. For every drive I have another one with synched with the same data. Then another with an older copy.
After they are are overwritten I generally physically destroy them. No one wants them. Worth nothing.
I pulled out a 250gb laptop drive this morning into an enclosure to use as temp transport for the kids old game machine save games
I also use the old drives in an enclosure as backups.
I have my backups organized so documents and photos and media are separate backups. So documents are a smaller backup that's synced often. Where as the media is massive and synched much less often.
I also have recent photos separate to old photo archives for the same reason.
I have my backups organized so documents and photos and media are separate backups. So documents are a smaller backup that's synced often. Where as the media is massive and synched much less often.
I also have recent photos separate to old photo archives for the same reason.
Funnily enough I got one 125GB SSD drives that I did a Full format on + a 240ssd then put them into External Enclosures. Saved me buying a Pen drive. The other 250GB is a Clone of this PC just in case it decides to die. I got loads of different cables as well except a darn Display port. So had to buy one yesterday. I got two DVI-D to Display-Port and quite a few DVD-I cables and HDMI ones I just hope I not need to buy any more of them. Is never ending. Good job I enjoy my Hobbies.
I've moved to 512GB external SSD. (As a flash drive) Making anything smaller SSD/Flash Drive redundant for me..
Well I use older USBs for ISOs and such. Also kids school and college stuff. Also handy for non encrypted file transport.
I was finding Flash Drives failing a bit. They aren't as robust as SSD if you use them a lot..
Well I use older USBs for ISOs and such. Also kids school and college stuff. Also handy for non encrypted file transport.
I was finding Flash Drives failing a bit. They aren't as robust as SSD if you use them a lot..
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I did the same as you. I put in a Crucial 500GB SSD in this Gigabyte PC then cloned it. I lost one USB pen drive and broke another, that's my main reason for inserting the older SSD into an External enclosure. Got the NVME 1TB in the new PC but keep wondering if I should have used a 500gb instead. I guess this 1TB will soon get half full with Microsofts Updates lol. I was going through a cupboard of stuff I got earlier on, and discovered a HP External DVD-R/CD-R burner I bought many years ago. I had only used it about three times at 4x burn. (that is the fastest it will go) Thought it was Brill until a few weeks later they brought out the Internal ones. I felt gutted at the time. I might plug it into the new PC to see if it will still work.
I think the extra space on the nvme will prove to be handy. If not for the OS even as temp folders.
If you've old hardware like that, that you've never used you're unlikely to now. Sell it on to retro collectors. Don't be a hoarder. Don't be digital hoarder either. Trim that photo collection.
I've an external USB bluray which has been handy. But need to upgrade it now to 4k/UHD now.
If you've old hardware like that, that you've never used you're unlikely to now. Sell it on to retro collectors. Don't be a hoarder. Don't be digital hoarder either. Trim that photo collection.
I've an external USB bluray which has been handy. But need to upgrade it now to 4k/UHD now.
I'm going to make a folder for my Office and PDF files on it to start with. My images will go on a part of the 3TB drive I installed from the old Medion until I buy a new one. I'll also be putting those image files on this PC as well. My reason for that is I have now set up my New 'Asus ProArt PA248QV Monitor' today. The Brightness was so bright at 50 that I had spots in my eyes. so I turned it down to a low number. Alas I did not write it down and since then as much as I try I can NOT get the Brightness, Contrast to open. Not got a clue what I did to do it at first. Tried for 3 hours to access it all n see what the Kelvin was. I FAILED! Duh!!
No Book with it. I can't understand why they now leave the books out. Anyway, I did an A4 print with it on my Canon Pixma Pro 100. In fact two at first, one with Perceptual the other with Relative Colormetric. Both came out pretty good with the Pre-Calibration from the factory that was set in it. I then did a calibration with my Spyder 4 Elite without changing anything. Could not change anything anyway as for some reason I could not access the incredible difficult settings. I then printed the same image. All were Identical n Good. Calibration is at 96CD/m. 120 is to bright for me. Delta E-White point is 0.0 (lowest I ever got with any calibration) 50% Gray is 0.3. I can't complain about that. I got about 12 A3 photos to print later on Sunday. Lets Hope they all print well. I paid £12:99p for a 2m Display Port. I opened up the box and took out the Monitor and found 1 x Display port cable, 2 x HDMI cables a Euro plug and a Brit plug. Very Good of them to put them in. I used my old Electric plug and put that new one away with 12 others I got. As for selling the old gear, No one wants it, the CEX shop in town don't want them either. I got two very nice Tower cases where I might strip out all the parts and sell the towers. My Nephew will do that on Ebay for me. Decisions, Decisions. Too many of them.