1000 photos to copy, 1tb or 2tb external hard drive ? Flash drive ?

joe565

I've approx 1000 photos which I've never backed up or copied so will buy an external hard drive. Should I get a 1tb or 2tb and is there any other thing I should look for when buying one?

If I copy all photos to hard drive and then delete from my laptop will it run faster as its very slow?

A mate said just buy a usb flash drive, which one be best it or a external hard drive?

Cheers

Joe

googler

How much space do your photos take up at the moment? If more than 1Tb, you definitely need a drive larger than that.

If your photos take up less space than a USB flash drive, that will suffice.

Your slowness is unlikely to be caused by photos on your hard drive.

D_M_E

A thousand photos could take up anything from 100meg to 100gig of space, depending on what format they are - JPG, RAW, BMP or something else - and also what size and resolution they are.

A 1Tb drive would certainly store them and also give you a good bit of space for backing up other stuff as well.

bsod

if you delete them, you still won't have a backup, and there will be no improvement in speed from doing so, 1000 photo's would use less than 5% of a 1TB drive, they would probably fit on a dvd

jaydeeuk1

I'd look in to cloud storage. No point backing up to a USB hd if your laptop is stolen with it connected or a fire etc.

joe565

googler wrote: »

How much space do your photos take up at the moment? If more than 1Tb, you definitely need a drive larger than that.

If your photos take up less space than a USB flash drive, that will suffice.

Your slowness is unlikely to be caused by photos on your hard drive.

Don't no how much space there taking up. I'm hoping 1Tb be ok

joe565

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

I'd look in to cloud storage. No point backing up to a USB hd if your laptop is stolen with it connected or a fire etc.

Now theres a point, maybe cloud storage is better ?

Gloomendoom

I back up to the cloud and an external hard drive.

Not that I'm paranoid or anything.

googler

joe565 wrote: »

Don't no how much space there taking up. I'm hoping 1Tb be ok

Find out. Right-click on the folder or folders containing them and look at Properties. That will tell you.

[Deleted User]

I wish I could figure out a decent way of backing up 300gb of photos... They just live on my portable HD at the moment. I can't be bothered having to keep two parallel copies on two HDs, and it's way too much for cloud storage.

1000 photos? That's a weekend away for me!

joe565

googler wrote: »

Find out. Right-click on the folder or folders containing them and look at Properties. That will tell you.

Says 25GB, have noticed alot of photos are stored in my videos, not sure why but hopefully will drag them over to my pictures