Amortized, that’s a few hundred dollars a year for my photo business - well worth the expense. Photos are important to me, professionally and personally, but I’m not independently wealthy. I need to buy two redundant 8TB systems to last me for several years. It needs to exist and be offsite should anything happen to the entire studio Offsite storage does not need to be fast. That satisfies my needs for several years, so I can repurpose those as offsite storage disks. Totaled up, they have more than 8TB of storage. It also needs to cover the costs for backup drives, both offsite and onsite. I already own some older, slower USB disks. Your budget needs to cover not just the disks to hold your masters. Remember, you want three copies of your photos. Larger capacity would of course be better. An 8TB system will meet my needs for several years. I estimate growth between 1.5TB and 2TB a year. I tallied up the numbers for the first few months of 2016 and ran the projections. In the first quarter of 2016, I released two courses and had a third in development. I also produce longer form photography video courses.
I produce at least 2 photography videos a week on my YouTube channel. That’s important to know - once a photo round trips from Lightroom as a PSD it can easily reach 1GB in size.Īnother factor is video content - I am making a lot more video in 2016. Only a subset of those go through processing with ON1 Photo or Photoshop. I’ll leave a location with 100 photos on average. My landscape photography is much more targeted. I’m out shooting every week, usually twice. I reviewed my photo library and measured its growth over the last 12 months. What are your storage needs and what is your budget? Let’s talk needs first. There’s two things to know when building your storage system. In 2016, it was time to get ahead of the curve. If you want to chew up storage fast, make videos. Photography training courses, YouTube tutorials, personal projects. I’m creating more video content than ever before, too. RAW files from my newer Sony camera are larger than my older Nikon system. My storage capacity needs were also growing. It was a much needed boost in performance. I also looked forward to putting those snappy Thunderbolt ports to good use. As the adage goes, “If it’s not stored in three places, it doesn’t exist.”Įarlier this year I moved my photo library to a new iMac 5K from my aging MacPro. The ecosystem has to grow, not just a part of it. It's not just updating my main storage drive, but also my backups. Two or three years back, I wrote about outgrowing yet another hard disk. Storage and backup may be mundane, but they are unquestionably critical. But, in the digital age, you have to have a storage and backup strategy for your photos. I’d much rather spend time with my camera or be teaching others about photography.
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