Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 Frank Filippone <bmwred735i at gmail.com>wrote: >This is written to help those who are not computer savvy, and have a few years of digital photos they wish to preserve, and especially want to >backup.? I will try to be as easy on the techie talk as possible. >... >You want to preserve them... for "posterity".? Or your Kids.? Or because you are a hoarder. >... >Go get an USB 3.0,? EXTERNAL, HDD.?? There are two brands, Seagate or Western Digital.? Makes no difference which you choose. >It will come in a capacity of 4TB to 20TB.? Figure a cost of about $15 per TB. >Do not buy a portable HDD. get the _desktop version_. >What size for ME?? big enough.... use this as a guideline.... >If you produce RAW 60MP images, each 1TB of HDD space will hold roughly 16,000 images. >Do the math.... or just use this advice, buy the 8TB model. That is a lifetime of images for Mr. Joe Average, amateur photographer. >Dedicate this HDD to your images only.? Or not. >How easy is this to install?? Plug it in to power and use the enclosed USB cable to your computer.? Done. Installed. >Figure out HOW you wish to establish the hierarchy of folders... by Year?? Camera?? Country/Topic?? Set up those folders. >Copy all your image files to the external HDD. ( this may take a while ... do it the first time at night.... ) >Done. >Yes, it really is that easy. >Do not pay attention to the recent nonsense on RAID Arrays, JBOD, NAS, DAS, LAN, or other words that you really have no interest in.? Just go get >the >8TB USB 3.0,? EXTERNAL, HDD, and start using it. >Happy backup heaven. >Frank Filippone >BMWRed735i at Gmail.com =================================================================================================================== Thank you, Frank. I have less than 500 GB of digital files, so this helps a lot. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt