10-10-2015, 01:47 AM
I have at least 1.1/2TBs of photos stored on 3X 3TB external hard drives + three other smaller hard drives, each photo in triplicate on separate drives, RAW+ PSD.
My call is that external hard drives are now cheap at about 110 euros for a 3TB drive, so I buy one every now and then, funnily enough I've never had a hard drive go down, they have just been superseded as and when I get another computer! External hard drives don't suffer if your computer goes down. Computer remained on 24/7 but recently I turn it off at night.
I had a large collection of home burnt DVDs and many are no longer usable, so I've no faith in them.
Just keep on buying hard drives, wouldn't want to upload/download that lot!
My call is that external hard drives are now cheap at about 110 euros for a 3TB drive, so I buy one every now and then, funnily enough I've never had a hard drive go down, they have just been superseded as and when I get another computer! External hard drives don't suffer if your computer goes down. Computer remained on 24/7 but recently I turn it off at night.
I had a large collection of home burnt DVDs and many are no longer usable, so I've no faith in them.
Just keep on buying hard drives, wouldn't want to upload/download that lot!