[neilv]

Agreed, this can be a big win, and I did something like this while I learning photojournalism on the side, and generating a lot of images.

Combined with the tech (RAID array, backups, sharing script), it also helped to have a manual practice of culling photos.

I didn't cull as selectively as I might pick photos to cold-submit to a publication. But if I had several almost identical images from the same event in my archive, I'd try to delete all but one of them.

Reducing space requirements to 1/4 has home IT benefits: maybe don't need that NAS or bigger drives yet, backups run 4x faster, backups might fit on a single backup medium or much less expensive one, can afford that second big local drive for a little extra RAID-mirroring protection, etc.

It's also good encouragement to be a little more judicious about pressing the button on the camera that makes more culling work. :)