Thread 4475794

How do we store our photos? I use the unlimited photo storage that comes with Amazon Prime, but I'm thinking of switching to a RAID hard drive instead.

>>4475794 (OP)
We had an autism-grade NAS thread here not long ago. Basically:
>Buying a NAS with RAID just for photos is dumb. Just use an external drive (i.e. a DAS) and follow 3-2-1 backup policy for important shit.
>Buying a NAS that will be used for OTHER shit as well makes it make sense.
>If you're retarded buy Synology and use their OS.
>If you'd rather learn some stuff, tinker a bit, or otherwise set up a homelab / server for future use, you can mess with making one up yourself and running 3rd party software. Hit up /g/ for specific help.

Personally I use a NAS but I have a full blown homelab set up for all sorts of shit. The big plus for storing photos on a NAS is that I can throw them around all my devices super easily.

>>4475794 (OP)
I have a few different drive I work off, but everything also makes its way to the NAS
I am retard and went with Synology and love it, it's been way more handy than I thought

>>4475794 (OP)
I honestly think that NAS is a meme. I calculated recently how much would that cost me to buy and setup one, along with yearly costs in electricity (since that shit will run 24/7) and concluded that it makes no sense at all for typical home usage. External hard drives cases, connected via USB, are not more than sufficient and much more reasonable.

>>4475814
>electricity cost
Not even a factor.

>>4475814
>with yearly costs in electricity
Yeah, if you are that budget constrained not a good idea
I've found it super handy for working across multiple computers, easy access on phone for social media posting, and being able to access on the go anytime I have an Internet connect has been so useful

>>4475866
Depends on the cunt

>>4475794 (OP)
On an external HDD that sits in my desk drawer. I haven’t even back up my photos in like two months.

>>4475814
>i dont see the point of a nas
wtf really?

>im jewish
oh, we understand now.

>>4475794 (OP)
Work on big fuckin workstation with a 4tb nvme drive, files r fast reading locally.

Real-time file syncing to my olde MacBook Pro with 16tb internal sata SSD storage. When at home office, all work is done on big workstation, & when I leave I just grab my old Mbp and have a full backup of 100% of my data & can read & write locally. As soon as I return any edits are automatically sync’d back to workstation. No big ugly boxes and birds nest of wires and versioning problems. Clean & easy, like sliding a cock up a freshly cleaned booty, smooth & tight.

I have my negatives in a binder
that is

>>4475794 (OP)
Accept the impermanence of all things

I burn muh pictures on CD-Rs

>>4475794 (OP)
Just print them and use a photo album

YOU DON'T NEED RAID!!
RAID is cancer, you don't need it.
Don't get RAID unless you can't afford three days of downtime restoring your backups. Or you are willing to fiddle with RAID software and RAID controllers.

You need a backup anyway.
Buy three HDDs of the same size and copy the data on each.
Same folder structure so that you can compare them easily.

>>4476143
>just duplicate everything

>>4476282
triplicate, you illiterate nigger

>>4476282
More redundancy is more secure, yes. Three backups is better than one raid backup, yes it’s true

>>4475794 (OP)
yea like thousand dolalrs for like what 100k photos worth of storage?
that shit is crazy expensive
now is it cheaper to be a film niger developing photos and shit
i don't know

>>4476459
>yea like thousand dolalrs for like what 100k photos worth of storage?
For just storage, you can do that under $100
My simple 8TB NAS was $410 and holds a lot more than 100k

If you are shooting 100k photos but can't afford $100, something is not matching up

How do you keep your backups mirrored?
If you have external USB backup drives in your drawer or offsite, you might remember to copy new files to the backup every so often, but if you do changes on the primary, like delete files, rename files, create folders and move files to them. what do you do other than format the backup drive and copy everything to it? What software, mac/windows/linux to keep them the same?

>>4477272
rsync. there are several alternatives to it avaiable in different os, e.g: freefilesync or unison.

I store all my raw files on HDDs. I have 7 with 1tb now but no backup copies. Never in my life an HDD failed on me and even if it happens one day.. it's just raw files of snapshits who cares. The edited photos I upload on Google Photos so I always have access from anywhere.

>>4477273
I had free file sync forever and never used it. Then I used it once and now I use the shit out of it several times a day to keep aaaaall my crap sync’d properly across machines, internal drives, externals, backups, network drives, everything. I’ll use it to check old file transfers & make sure they were completed & nothing fell thru the cracks, or catch old versions on old backup drives it’s tits

>>4475794 (OP)
Flash NAS for storage then I backup to external HDDs occasionally. I do video so I need the extra storage but having flash for mainline storage is so much more responsive. And if you are doing only photos, just a regular big SSD is plenty. 4TB can hold almost 60,000 61MP RAW files.

>>4477272
>what do you do other than format the backup drive and copy everything to it?

This is exactly what I do once a year to two backup drives. I like the idea of syncing but I'm too disorganized so I just dump everything on them and promise myself "I'll sort it out later"

i just put mine in google drive

>>4477272
I sync my PC files to NAS with synology drive

>>4479817
True, but I keep them in a separate hard drive as well. Don't be doing weird shit with my name alright.