Vincent Lowe Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 100TB SSD drive - a snip at $40,000.... 😎  https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/at-100tb-the-worlds-biggest-ssd-gets-an-eye-watering-price-tag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 What a nightmare if it failed!  I'd buy 2 50's - much cheaper than one 100 - wonder why that is?   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lowe Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 4 minutes ago, Marianne said: What a nightmare if it failed!   No problem - buy two and have a backup......😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imageplotter Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 $40k sandcastles aside, storage is getting a bit of a problem, though. I'm pushing 25TB at the moment on 3x10TB as I'm paranoid of anything larger, backed up onto a 2nd copy 3x10TB stored in a different physical location, so 50TB overall filled, plus various smaller 4-6TB drives for everyday use on older stuff that is re-visited (but is backed up in RAW and some tiffs, plus edited batches of final client images on the larger drives, too), and it is all getting quite painful to maintain. Trying to move to a Thunderbold raid system, but whilst that will make physical complexity less unattractive and probably improves performance, the overall capacity problem remains. (and it's a pricey system if I again want to maintain two separate physical locations). Dunno....🥴 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlmphotog Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Maybe a good ideal to backup/archive on various media such as BluRay. For long term archive I use Verbatim M-Disk BD-R 100GB disk. Â Also if your backup is at the same location as the original data then it's not backed up.... Â David L. Moore 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultanpepa Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Busily culling my digital NEF library of unnecessary files. I suddenly realised how expensive it has become to have two back-ups and my main drive to upgrade/Â replace at the same time. Deleting old files seams like a short term solution to a problem which only gets worse the larger the file sizes become. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I currently have over 25 Western Digital (WD) 1TB externals, I remember when a WD 1TB external cost over $300.00 USD now I buy then for $50.00. In all of my years using WD externals I've only had one fail and I was able to recover all files from the drive. I can not imagine using, storing files, on a 2TB+ drive, while I have not had one fail, I know at some point one will. I do keep NEF, 16bit TIFF conversions and a master file of all uploaded images (JPEGs) on at least two different drives.  Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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