How do we store our photos? I use the unlimited photo storage that comes with Amazon Prime, but I'm thinking of switching to a RAID hard drive instead.
>>4475794We had an autism-grade NAS thread here not long ago. Basically:>Buying a NAS with RAID just for photos is dumb. Just use an external drive (i.e. a DAS) and follow 3-2-1 backup policy for important shit.>Buying a NAS that will be used for OTHER shit as well makes it make sense.>If you're retarded buy Synology and use their OS.>If you'd rather learn some stuff, tinker a bit, or otherwise set up a homelab / server for future use, you can mess with making one up yourself and running 3rd party software. Hit up /g/ for specific help.Personally I use a NAS but I have a full blown homelab set up for all sorts of shit. The big plus for storing photos on a NAS is that I can throw them around all my devices super easily.
>>4475794I have a few different drive I work off, but everything also makes its way to the NASI am retard and went with Synology and love it, it's been way more handy than I thought
>>4475794I honestly think that NAS is a meme. I calculated recently how much would that cost me to buy and setup one, along with yearly costs in electricity (since that shit will run 24/7) and concluded that it makes no sense at all for typical home usage. External hard drives cases, connected via USB, are not more than sufficient and much more reasonable.
>>4475814>electricity costNot even a factor.
>>4475814>with yearly costs in electricityYeah, if you are that budget constrained not a good ideaI've found it super handy for working across multiple computers, easy access on phone for social media posting, and being able to access on the go anytime I have an Internet connect has been so useful
>>4475866Depends on the cunt
>>4475794On an external HDD that sits in my desk drawer. I haven’t even back up my photos in like two months.
>>4475814>i dont see the point of a naswtf really?>im jewishoh, we understand now.
>>4475794Work on big fuckin workstation with a 4tb nvme drive, files r fast reading locally.Real-time file syncing to my olde MacBook Pro with 16tb internal sata SSD storage. When at home office, all work is done on big workstation, & when I leave I just grab my old Mbp and have a full backup of 100% of my data & can read & write locally. As soon as I return any edits are automatically sync’d back to workstation. No big ugly boxes and birds nest of wires and versioning problems. Clean & easy, like sliding a cock up a freshly cleaned booty, smooth & tight.
I have my negatives in a binderthat is
>>4475794Accept the impermanence of all things
I burn muh pictures on CD-Rs
>>4475794Just print them and use a photo album
YOU DON'T NEED RAID!!RAID is cancer, you don't need it.Don't get RAID unless you can't afford three days of downtime restoring your backups. Or you are willing to fiddle with RAID software and RAID controllers.You need a backup anyway. Buy three HDDs of the same size and copy the data on each. Same folder structure so that you can compare them easily.
>>4476143>just duplicate everything
>>4476282triplicate, you illiterate nigger
>>4476282More redundancy is more secure, yes. Three backups is better than one raid backup, yes it’s true
>>4475794yea like thousand dolalrs for like what 100k photos worth of storage?that shit is crazy expensivenow is it cheaper to be a film niger developing photos and shiti don't know
>>4476459>yea like thousand dolalrs for like what 100k photos worth of storage?For just storage, you can do that under $100My simple 8TB NAS was $410 and holds a lot more than 100kIf you are shooting 100k photos but can't afford $100, something is not matching up
How do you keep your backups mirrored?If you have external USB backup drives in your drawer or offsite, you might remember to copy new files to the backup every so often, but if you do changes on the primary, like delete files, rename files, create folders and move files to them. what do you do other than format the backup drive and copy everything to it? What software, mac/windows/linux to keep them the same?
>>4477272rsync. there are several alternatives to it avaiable in different os, e.g: freefilesync or unison.
I store all my raw files on HDDs. I have 7 with 1tb now but no backup copies. Never in my life an HDD failed on me and even if it happens one day.. it's just raw files of snapshits who cares. The edited photos I upload on Google Photos so I always have access from anywhere.
>>4477273I had free file sync forever and never used it. Then I used it once and now I use the shit out of it several times a day to keep aaaaall my crap sync’d properly across machines, internal drives, externals, backups, network drives, everything. I’ll use it to check old file transfers & make sure they were completed & nothing fell thru the cracks, or catch old versions on old backup drives it’s tits
>>4475794Flash NAS for storage then I backup to external HDDs occasionally. I do video so I need the extra storage but having flash for mainline storage is so much more responsive. And if you are doing only photos, just a regular big SSD is plenty. 4TB can hold almost 60,000 61MP RAW files.>>4477272>what do you do other than format the backup drive and copy everything to it?This is exactly what I do once a year to two backup drives. I like the idea of syncing but I'm too disorganized so I just dump everything on them and promise myself "I'll sort it out later"
