wda Posted March 5, 2022 Share #61 Posted March 5, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) 8 minutes ago, P1505 said: You’re determined to save me space. I’m determined to get a new drive. Your way is cheaper. My way helps save me from this 12 year old drive failing My way is 'Win Win'. You can still buy a new drive, if you deem it prudent to do so.😀 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 Hi wda, Take a look here Rethinking my digital photo storage - how do others do it?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
pop Posted March 5, 2022 Share #62 Posted March 5, 2022 I don't think that is has been mentioned here before. DNG files can be uncompressed or compressed. Of the various compressing features, some can compress the image files in a way that does not lose any information at all; it merely shrinks the files by using the storage space within the file more efficiently. It might be worthwhile to convert all DNG files to a compressed format if they are not already compressed. Even if storage capacity is cheap, moving a large number of bloated image files between several locations is not and will not become cheap enough. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david strachan Posted March 6, 2022 Share #63 Posted March 6, 2022 And further to pop.. Living with computers is a dystopian nightmare. One just spends time where the images are...backed up enough, safe enough, did a brown-out happen last night, who wants to look at my images now (no-one). Some like to think it's "money in the bank"...big no, it's worthless. Vast storage has unobtrusively been pushed on us as a good thing. ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
P1505 Posted March 6, 2022 Share #64 Posted March 6, 2022 10 hours ago, wda said: My way is 'Win Win'. You can still buy a new drive, if you deem it prudent to do so.😀 Ok. You win. Ill buy 12tb of new storage and cull so I could of got away with a 512meg USB stick. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted March 6, 2022 Share #65 Posted March 6, 2022 1 hour ago, P1505 said: Ok. You win. Ill buy 12tb of new storage and cull so I could of got away with a 512meg USB stick. I am confident that you will reap the benefits once you reach the creative phase of your retirement. Happy days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
P1505 Posted March 6, 2022 Share #66 Posted March 6, 2022 I’m 30 years away from retirement. If I make it at all it’s going to be a huge job no matter what. In my head I picture a comfy seat, fantastic screen, and wine. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
P1505 Posted March 12, 2022 Share #67 Posted March 12, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) Ordered another 4TB. Medium format images are huge. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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