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Not another disk. I use OWC 4 bay thunderbay systems. 4x disk for each system. 1 system is my primary, one is backup in the house and one is backup in vault. 12 large (22-24 TB drives - up from 12 16TB).Hi Rich, that's a lot of photos! Losing 600k is going to be some work, probably cheaper just to buy another disk and call it a day
Let me know if you ever run out of bad images. I’ve got boatloads!Lightroom says I only have 621,000 since 2016.
Now, if only there were a keeper or two in there...
Oh, it's worth noting I generally don't delete anything since I sometimes need examples of "bad" images / mistakes for my educational efforts. That, and I'm lazy.
Too many to count over too many years to which I’m willing to admit.Been thinking about this since the thread discussing storage and costs. For this I'm excluding smartphone pics because I treat those separately. I have a bit under 15000 camera images/videos (430GB) from 2002 to date. I'm a fairly aggressive editor and will delete most any image I don't like or has problems. And if I get new images of a subject or species I'll re-evaluate the older pics and any that don't stand up get deleted. I went on a big purge last year and deleted 10K images!
Of the 15K, over 10% are family images as well. I'm curious if I'm more typical of people here on the forum or on the tangent edge...
I really don't know how many I shot, only how many in my LR catalog. I do occasionally deleteToo many to count over too many years to which I’m willing to admit.
I have approximately 275,000 in my backup drives. I've taken about 450,000 since 2008 when I started using my current file name and numbering system. I do delete - pretty aggressively for wildlife. Every image since 2010 is rated and almost all are keyworded as part of my basic ingest using PM. I have around 13 TB of images stored on dual 8 TB drives - so it's near time to add more drives. I have more than 25,000 images in my Smoky Mountains archive alone, about 10,000 from the Okefenokee, and around 15,000 from the PGA Tour Championship.Been thinking about this since the thread discussing storage and costs. For this I'm excluding smartphone pics because I treat those separately. I have a bit under 15000 camera images/videos (430GB) from 2002 to date. I'm a fairly aggressive editor and will delete most any image I don't like or has problems. And if I get new images of a subject or species I'll re-evaluate the older pics and any that don't stand up get deleted. I went on a big purge last year and deleted 10K images!
Of the 15K, over 10% are family images as well. I'm curious if I'm more typical of people here on the forum or on the tangent edge...
I have a small sports photography business and have amassed over 150,000 images since 2011. I have probably deleted 3 or 4 times that many. I have about 20,000 photos in personal albums and have deleted very few over the years.Been thinking about this since the thread discussing storage and costs. For this I'm excluding smartphone pics because I treat those separately. I have a bit under 15000 camera images/videos (430GB) from 2002 to date. I'm a fairly aggressive editor and will delete most any image I don't like or has problems. And if I get new images of a subject or species I'll re-evaluate the older pics and any that don't stand up get deleted. I went on a big purge last year and deleted 10K images!
Of the 15K, over 10% are family images as well. I'm curious if I'm more typical of people here on the forum or on the tangent edge...
I am a sports guy and shoot @ 125,000 shots per year. although I don't teach, I'm also to lazy to delete. Should you need any BAD shots for your classes Steve, just ask!Lightroom says I only have 621,000 since 2016.
Now, if only there were a keeper or two in there...
Oh, it's worth noting I generally don't delete anything since I sometimes need examples of "bad" images / mistakes for my educational efforts. That, and I'm lazy.