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

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Gloomendoom wrote: »

Apart from the fact that you need to run the computer for all that time.

And that the cloud sites really don't work very well doing this!

Right - i've checked and apparently my Amazon prime account gives me unlimited photo storage in the cloud. I'll see just how much i can upload (and I might treat myself to a 1TB portable drive too)

OK.. i'm trying out a little 8gb upload, only 380gb left after that! (it's a cumulative backup of all the photos we've ever taken as a family, across phones, tablets and cameras, for about 14 years)

joe565

forgotmyname wrote: »

24GB of pictures? are you sure? Thats probably more than 5000 at 16MP resolution and approx 15,000 at 6MP.

Thats a bit more than the 1000 or so you mentioned initially.

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Thats what it says. My initial guess of 1000 was slightly wrong

Gloomendoom

ringo_24601 wrote: »

And that the cloud sites really don't work very well doing this!

My advice is to do it in small batches. My experience with Onedrive is that it just locks up if I try to upload a large number of files at once.

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Gloomendoom wrote: »

My advice is to do it in small batches. My experience with Onedrive is that it just locks up if I try to upload a large number of files at once.

Yeh, I'm going to upload them chronologically about 10gb at a time. I'm limited to an up speed of 4mb/s. I'm also using the Amazon windows upload tool rather than going via the website.

Robisere

Portable Hdd: (Toshiba)
http://www.ebuyer.com/664372-toshiba-2tb-canvio-basics-usb-3-0-2-5-ext-hdd-black-hdtb320ek3ca
SATA External Hdd:
http://www.ebuyer.com/709705-seagate-expansion-2tb-usb-3-0-desktop-external-hard-drive-steb2000200

Second backup:
If you have a Google account (if not, get one) use Google Photos and download Google Drive, then setup MyDrive. Put all your photos into Google photos and back them up to MyDrive.

joe565

Robisere wrote: »

Portable Hdd: (Toshiba)
http://www.ebuyer.com/664372-toshiba-2tb-canvio-basics-usb-3-0-2-5-ext-hdd-black-hdtb320ek3ca
SATA External Hdd:
http://www.ebuyer.com/709705-seagate-expansion-2tb-usb-3-0-desktop-external-hard-drive-steb2000200

Second backup:
If you have a Google account (if not, get one) use Google Photos and download Google Drive, then setup MyDrive. Put all your photos into Google photos and back them up to MyDrive.

Do I need both hdd?

bsod

don't need either

[Deleted User]

Gloomendoom wrote: »

My advice is to do it in small batches. My experience with Onedrive is that it just locks up if I try to upload a large number of files at once.

So far I've managed to upload 31gb overnight. Amazon Drive's loader seems quite stable with large amounts of files.

Only 250gb to go!!

jshm2

Cloud services do not hold Hi Res pictures well and they compress them to save space. You're also forgetting that if your internet goes belly up then you've lost access to your Cloud as well.

Clud is not a good storage medium - it's a good medium for keeping at hand files you don't want to carry on device. Ideally you want to get yourself a NAS instead.

But if you're just after storage then 3TB Toshiba Canvio drives are pretty cheap these days. You're also 100% in control of your pictures.

dipsomaniac

jshm2 wrote: »

Cloud services do not hold Hi Res pictures well and they compress them to save space. You're also forgetting that if your internet goes belly up then you've lost access to your Cloud as well.

Clud is not a good storage medium - it's a good medium for keeping at hand files you don't want to carry on device. Ideally you want to get yourself a NAS instead.

But if you're just after storage then 3TB Toshiba Canvio drives are pretty cheap these days. You're also 100% in control of your pictures.

you have the option with google photos to keep original or high res (max 16mb)

cloud storage is ideal for offsite storage. some also has some cool features

3tb? my digital life started in 2000. i have taken 22,000 photos and 1,000 videos since then and all those 16 years of content only takes up 190gbs of storage. the drive will die long before you get anywhere near filling it.