Hard Drive Decisions
June 26th, 2009 | 
Author: Looks like I’m not the only one talking about bigger hard drives and RAID arrays. Outdoor Photographer has an article which looks at different drive solutions for backing up your photo collection. They are also fans of the USB external drives which can be added to your system in just a minute or two. They also discuss some of the more powerful options.
Having a large number of large files is a good problem to have. A large file means lots of data and, ultimately, that means more options for creative expression. If you shoot RAW, you already know that gives you expanded control over the final results-but that control comes at the expense of file size. Plus, many cameras nowadays have built-in editing and “art filter” functions that, because you may save more than one version of the same file, once again, increase your need for storage space.
Other Articles of Interest:
- Seagate ships its billionth hard drive, promises 2 B in five years
- Time to Make the Backups
- 1 Terabyte=$200
- Just in the nick of time?
- Tidy up hard disks with O&O DiskStat
- Never a bad time to get a bigger drive
- The holiday backup strategy
- The Drives Are Bad! The Drives Are Bad!
- Building up 4.5TB of storage
- You can unscrew, but can you undelete?
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I have 2 x 1TB drives in my Drobo. I still have over 50% of the space free so no need to drop drives into the 2 empty drive bays yet. I’ll wait until I need more storage and buy whatever the best GB/$ ratio drive is available at that time. Right now it is the 1TB drives but in a year it’ll probably be something much larger.
The Drobo rocks. You don’t even need to turn it off to add, remove, or replace a drive and can drop in any combination of brand/sizes/etc, no matching required.