I have massive amounts of hard disk space. Yet it is being overrun by photos from three years of shooting RAW, and huge Photoshop files which are never really "done" ;)
Up until now, the only photos I've placed on secondary (CD/DVD) storage are ones I am pretty sure I don't want to use. If they are bad, I delete them, but even then, there's one backup from the initial shoot on DVD.
So I have folders and folders of photos waiting for me to go back and find the gems and do some editing. Or maybe I found one gem, but there are other "candidates"
I am now running constantly on the last 5% of my storage space allocated for photos. About 150 GB in all even after recent efforts to clean up. I could buy another drive, but that wouldn't solve the problem long term. I shoot about 1 GB each time I go shooting (and I'm even considering getting another gig CF card!). I actually have over a terabyte of online storage here, including a 300 MB external maxtor drive, but most is in use or reserved for my software development work.
So I am finally considering keeping my "Capture" folders only "offline" on CD/DVD. Besides my normal backup, I would keep a special sequentially numberd set, in one of those caselogic disk notebooks. Indexed in Thumbsplus, or some other program. It's a big step though, because I know from a regular work backup, it's much less likely that you'll ever go back to those photos if they are not quickly available.
Well that's my long winded background, I started this thread to hear about what other people are doing to tame massive photo accumulations!
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