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How do you guys organize your hard drives? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Spirit-Subject@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I have short films, projects that never got made, personal photos, ones of friends, clients, old family ones .. i do some writing and store different documents. I want to have a Mari Kundo type hard drive.

Do you guys have any tips? Or some industry standard I’m not aware of?

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[–] Rygel17@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Definitely like this and the hard drive replacement guidance. I've had bad luck when it comes to hard drives. I want to get a NAS setup and maintain my files better. Currently at a breaking point, my two laptops are full, I have two external hard rives that are unusable, one won't read from a drop lost everything from 2007 to 2009 I keep it around hopping one day in afford to recover it. Then another hard drive that wiped and every time I format it it wipes and acts like a new hard drive. A third external that works but also full.

I have Gopro cloud and a full Google Photos. I just dont have the funds to upgrade, I was hoping Black Friday would be more forgiving but put the kids and wife first so my content creation remains on hold.

[–] molensloot@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Well. In fact there are 2 paths. The first path is to go purely Cloud. It won't cost that much (Google Drive 5Tb). Problem is working with Lightroom, and having grandfather-father-son type of backups. But this wil work for most people. I sure will.

Second is one system (like mine above, which is just my way of doing things), but be prepared for the cost (3 x HDD + some subscriptions + learning curve (Google Cloud Storage, Hyper Backup, etc...).