[jiggliemon]

I’ve been shooting for a very long time. And I shoot several sessions per month, and roughly 60gb per session. Sometimes much more, sometimes less. There is no possible way, nor reason, to have all those images in the cloud.

I split up my catalogs aggressively, so I don’t really know how many images I have saved. But it’s in the hundreds of thousands.

New Lightroom might be OK for the casual photographer. But for the pro or even advanced amateur, the new Lightroom is completely useless.

[oh_hello]

I don't have nearly your scale of photo data, but I also refuse to move to the cloud-based Lightroom. I really hope there are enough pro users like you to prevent Adobe from pulling the plug on Lightroom Classic. I'd go straight to Affinity or elsewhere if that happened.

[fludlight]

What's your local storage setup?

[berkes]

Not OP. But a friend photographer has a large cupboard with "pigeonholes", I think it was some old mail-sorting cabinet or so. He stacks them with labeled USB drives. Hundreds of them.

His reasoning, when I asked about "NAS" or so, was: it's cheap, it lasts, and it is cold storage. Paying for storage of that amount that is fire-, flood and software-error-proof is so much more expensive that it really was no choice. -his words-.

[teddyh]

> it lasts

Flash storage degrades, and is only expected to last about 10 years or so.

[Mediterraneo10]

Flash storage has a certain maximum number of writes and so will eventually fail as a reusable storage medium. But if you simply want to back up old photos, then you are still likely to be able to read back from the medium for much longer than 10 years.

[NateEag]

Dell says you may get as little as three months in storage from an SSD:

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/Solid...

I know someone who had their files vanish off a thumbdrive in the space of a few months of storage.

[teddyh]

Every reference I can find gives about a maximum of 10 years as the on-the-shelf, unpowered, lifetime of flash memory. Do you have a reference to some other number?

[jiggliemon]

I just saw this, so excuse the late response.

I’m pretty bad at storage discipline. And I admit that most of what I store is generally useless. But there’s diminishing returns on deciding what to store, vs. storing everything.

I have a little hard drive toaster that I keep a revolving 5tb spinning disc drive in. It’s my “storage” drive, and once it fills up I replace it with new ones. I don’t shoot “professionally” as in for clients, but I shoot some fairly large scale images, that result in lots and lots of data. And my working files can get up to 10gb in size. So I vigorously backup my working files, and I’m only halfassedly storing all the captures in case I need to go back and review, or dig up BTS. Lastly I have a pretty cheap and crappy SSD that I use as a sort of scratch disc. If I shoot teatherd, I’ll capture to it, or if I’m working on an image I’ll work off the SSD until the image is complete, and then move it to me of the spinning disc drives.

I currently have 3 filled 5tb drives with captures, and a drobo that I keep my working files on (tiffs, psd’s, psb’s).

If none of what I’m saying adds up, take a look at my images, and hopefully it will make it slightly more clear: http://agroism.com