Keep everything, forever if you are a professional. The time and effort it took to schlep yourself and your gear out to the site, potentially have a location rented, talent on site etc... you should justify keeping the photos. Get a SATA bay or enclosure to read naked SATA drives and store them in antistatic bags / safe place. Use GoHardDrive to buy affordable 8TB drives (choose the 5 year warranty). I think you can get them for $80... should be enough to store many many shoots with.
If you want to go to the whole next level of non cloud base archiving nerd-ery check out LTO Tape.
Also I recommend the subreddit Datahoarders for some good convo about data systems.
Keep everything, forever if you are a professional. The time and effort it took to schlep yourself and your gear out to the site, potentially have a location rented, talent on site etc... you should justify keeping the photos. Get a SATA bay or enclosure to read naked SATA drives and store them in antistatic bags / safe place. Use GoHardDrive to buy affordable 8TB drives (choose the 5 year warranty). I think you can get them for $80... should be enough to store many many shoots with.
If you want to go to the whole next level of non cloud base archiving nerd-ery check out LTO Tape.
Also I recommend the subreddit Datahoarders for some good convo about data systems.