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Jack

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I would like to ask everyone, where do you store your images? As a photographer, we shoot lots of images, and sometimes we shoot in raw which it's a lot of space. Do you upload your images on some photo hosting companies , or hard drivers?
 

Greg Shchepanek

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I have two Seagate external hard drives + MacBook Pro with ample storage and my new Mac Mini I only upload to clouds when I have to move something around + I am storing photos on my Pixel 4a.
 

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I have two Seagate external hard drives + MacBook Pro with ample storage and my new Mac Mini I only upload to clouds when I have to move something around + I am storing photos on my Pixel 4a.

How much you pay for the cloud ? I have 1 external driver with 5tb, but I'm used that mostly for movies , I have 2 tb on my laptop too.
 

Greg Shchepanek

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Cloud I use iCloud, Google Cloud and Adobe and they are all part of my device purchases and I don't pay anything unless I need more space but like I said I just move things around on them...because I have ample storage on all my devices
 

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Right now my photos, raw, export, project files together with experimental data from uni and other stuff are stored within a Google drive with a 2TB subscription.

As soon as I move I'm planning on getting a Nas to archive everything a Desktop PC with just a SSD for programs and an External SSD for storage of files I actually work on.
 

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I use a SSD 500 GO + 500 GO external hdd for backup, then my amazon prime cloud :)
 

Jack

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I don't store any raw files, because usually when I'm done shooting, I just edit the successful once and upload on my own site. The rest I just delete them. I do have an external 5tb hard driver, but that for movies mostly 😁
 

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I store my old JPGs and the new TIFF files on my laptop and sync it regulary with my Strato cloud (1TB / 5,50€ per month).
I make a second backup from time to time on an external 2TB harddisk.
 

Jack

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I store my old JPGs and the new TIFF files on my laptop and sync it regulary with my Strato cloud (1TB / 5,50€ per month).
I make a second backup from time to time on an external 2TB harddisk.

1TB for that money isn’t bad at all. Have you check 5TB hard driver ? This might save you some cash.