In today's edition, we'll talk about how to manage your storage
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Storage management has been one of the major problems faced by most creatives, you know people losing files after
Events, or maybe while working on the file to get corrupt or something
Now that happens because most people don't have a good backup system
You know, I have an IT background
So when it comes to backup I understand what it really is as in as the saying goes your networks resilience
Depends on the backup if you don't have a backup your network is as bad as it never existed
So this is my workflow. I have a camera that takes two SD cards at a time. So I have a
180GB SD card in slot 2 which is my main
Backup, I've set it so that whatever I shoot on slot one gets saved on slot 2
so slot 2 is my
Highest storage capacity. it has a 128GB SD card in there that keeps a copy of everything I shoot
on card one. so every time I shoot i have two copies on the same camera
So that's like my backup as I shoot. I use a Nikon D750
I know most Nikon cameras have that feature. Dual SD card. That's what I like
about them.
But the newer ones....
The mirrorless ones don't have that capability. It'll take me some time to switch to that
Because I'm used to having that backup feature on most of the Nikon bodies
aside that when I come back from a gig
I transfer the files from card one, card two never goes out of the camera. It's my
do i say permanent backup on the camera?
otherwise
I just take out card one, card one is usually a 32GB card, which I bring to my
macbook do that transfer onto my
Working SSD. My MacBook doesn't have that much internal storage
So I use an external SSD as my working hard drive. When I say working SSD, it means anytime
I have to retouch or do anything that's where I work from
So now at this very moment after transferring onto my SSD
I have three copies of that same file.
one the
128GB SD card in slot two. the SD card i copied it from and then my
Working SSD. So that's three
backups already
Now aside that once I've copied onto my working SSD and I go through and then do the basic
You know culling taking out the bad pictures I transfer the
folder onto an external hard drive.
That external is not SSD. It's just for storage. So that's my fourth backup
so now we have four points of failure the
128 gig SD card
The 32 gig SD card my working SSD then my two terabytes storage drive
with that, you know it'll take
external forces
for you to lose any file, you know, the last thing you want to do is
lose clients files
I mean for very very important occasions or very very important sessions. Charley
You don't want to go through the stress of having to explain to your client
why you lost their files
This is very very important now let's talk about my cards... I have this
card case where I keep all my cards most of my cards are
32GB. One whole wedding can go on a 32 gig SD card and there is a 64 in there also for rare
occasions so it saves
most of your cards from you know
shocks. when this thing lands on the floor, You are still sure that your cards will survive. for my external hard drive
I use a 2 terabyte hard drive, which is non SSD just because I use that to store my
files for future reference. my working SSD is a 500 gig hard drive. SSD because I
Need speed.
capture one needs speed to run, photoshop, most of the apps I use need speed. So that's why I chose an SSD as my
working external hard drive
This might not be the best but this is my workflow when it comes to storage. There was another system
I wanted to build i started it but along the way I just forgot about it
That's having a Windows machine
Feeding it with extra hard drives, so I just put it as a file server
so I just add it to my network and I'll be able to access it over the network.
There are NAS systems you can use, other ways of storage
So let me hear from you. How do you store your files?
Do you have any other way of doing things? I mean this might not be the best but this is what works for me
Until I'm able to get a network
drive where you know everything is
Easier so this is it for today guys
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