Back up 850gb of photos-How?

Sandie11

Hi
I have so many photo's on my computer going back years and will have lots more going forward (just family photos).
These amount to around 850gb
Currently i have saved them to disc, and backed them up on an external hard drive.
What would everyone else do with this many photo's?
Is Cloud storage the answer?, however i think expensive for this amount of storage, or is what i am doing enough.

Any comments are welcome

kwikbreaks

Cloud storage is going to be very expensive at that sort of volume.

I'd move them to one USB drive with a backup copy on a second. You don't really need them on a PC drive that is in use and where they would be more vulnerable to mishap.

One thing does occur to me though - surely you never look at the vast majority. I guess though that you'll never have the time to edit them either and chuck out the useless ones.

Sandie11

Hi

I have actually edited them in the past, its just about 8 years of family photo's which have certainly piled up.

I will look at a large USB to store them also, thanks for advice.

~Chameleon~

I have a 2TB WD NAS drive which should be more than sufficient and can be accessed by any device in the home, or even away from it.

Sandie11

I already back up to an external hard drive, but perhaps will buy another to safe guard and keep it off site.

I like the idea of the drive which can be accessed by any device in home, and yes 2TB is plenty.

Thank you

[Deleted User]

I've 'only' got 150gb of photos.. but i'm going for a combination of backing up from SD onto my home NAS (network linked 1TB drive) and also onto a USB hard-disk.

Also, my wife tends to pick a few hundred to print, every 6 months.

I wish I could be bothered going over 40,000 photos to pick our favourites. Annoyingly, because i tend to use rapid-fire on my camera, I often prefer 10 photos which act like a mini video. There's no way of picking your favourite there.

Johnmcl7

I backup my photos to a NAS device for convenience and then another backup to USB hard drive which is kept separate from the PC and NAS. That way I have the convenience of being able to access the photos from any machine on the network with the USB drive giving added protection.

Aside from the cost, my broadband connection simply isn't fast enough although I do regularly upload processed photos to an online gallery.

Edit: I don't see the problem with having a large collection of photos, storage is relatively cheap these days so it's not a problem storing them and they don't *have* to be viewed all the time to justify their existence. I find you never know when some odd or random photo may be wanted by someone, I have a lot of my photos as a screensaver slideshow and a decent selection of them on digital photo frames.

John

InsideInsurance

Use an external drive with a RAID array for ours plus Cloud storage for the really important ones (wedding etc)

ianders

https://www.flickr.com

Gives you 1TB of space for free

closed

if it's really 850GB of photo's, you'll probably never look at them

Tyler_Du

Backup onto 2 separate hard drives, store one away from your home and update both weekly / monthly as required