Hi all,
Well, with the R5 coming out along with other new cameras with larger "electronic MF" format lenses, storage requirements are going to increase just for the simple RAW files themselves, but also for intermediaries when roundtripping from PS/AP or other editors for heavy lifting, etc.
What do you have set up now?
How do you plan to expand?
My working system for awhile now, has been to keep my application data on the computers HD...but I keep all image files external.
I have a 3TB working drive that I import my images and videos to, and do most of my work there, and keep a good bit of backlog there until I eventually age some of it off to my "backup" NAS.
(I'm using "backup" in quotes as that I know if not offsite it isn't truly backup, but I"l come to that later).
I also have a SSD drive external that I used for my application cache needs...these are older and on thunderbolt 2, but still seems plenty fast enough for what I'm doing.
I have an older 2 disk NAS that has 2x 3TB drives mirrored...and I do regular "backups" to that from my desktop external 3TB work drive.
I have a 4x disk NAS that has a total of about 8TB in Synology's RAID 5 equivalent....on here when I import images to my work drive I do "backup" import to here.
ON this NAS I also keep copies of most of my applications' install binaries, and assorted other assets (video music, effects, etc).
This still works and decent room left working with the 5D3 content.
But with the estimated 45MB sensor of the R5....well, files for stills are gonna get larger. If this thing is pumping out RAW video, well, that's gonna be a large space sink too.
So, what do you currently have?
What do you have planned in the future for your work environment and archiving/ backup needs?
To address true backups....offsite, do any of ya'll do this?
I've been looking at BackBlaze as a service to maybe use?
What do you use or plan to use for true backup offsite?
Thanks in advance,
cayenne
Well, with the R5 coming out along with other new cameras with larger "electronic MF" format lenses, storage requirements are going to increase just for the simple RAW files themselves, but also for intermediaries when roundtripping from PS/AP or other editors for heavy lifting, etc.
What do you have set up now?
How do you plan to expand?
My working system for awhile now, has been to keep my application data on the computers HD...but I keep all image files external.
I have a 3TB working drive that I import my images and videos to, and do most of my work there, and keep a good bit of backlog there until I eventually age some of it off to my "backup" NAS.
(I'm using "backup" in quotes as that I know if not offsite it isn't truly backup, but I"l come to that later).
I also have a SSD drive external that I used for my application cache needs...these are older and on thunderbolt 2, but still seems plenty fast enough for what I'm doing.
I have an older 2 disk NAS that has 2x 3TB drives mirrored...and I do regular "backups" to that from my desktop external 3TB work drive.
I have a 4x disk NAS that has a total of about 8TB in Synology's RAID 5 equivalent....on here when I import images to my work drive I do "backup" import to here.
ON this NAS I also keep copies of most of my applications' install binaries, and assorted other assets (video music, effects, etc).
This still works and decent room left working with the 5D3 content.
But with the estimated 45MB sensor of the R5....well, files for stills are gonna get larger. If this thing is pumping out RAW video, well, that's gonna be a large space sink too.
So, what do you currently have?
What do you have planned in the future for your work environment and archiving/ backup needs?
To address true backups....offsite, do any of ya'll do this?
I've been looking at BackBlaze as a service to maybe use?
What do you use or plan to use for true backup offsite?
Thanks in advance,
cayenne