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What is best and most cost effective way of saving my photos and library as running out of external hard drive space ? Is iCloud the answer or google or Dropbox?
iMac, iOS 8.4
Use the application that came pre-installed on your iMac. If you are using OS X 10.10.3 or later use Photos, you can easily save the library on an EHD, many (including me) do that and have been for years.
Thanks. A large enough EHD Seems the best option. And every few years replace with new EHD for new photos?
Or just add another EHD.
A hint: organize your content now while you have a chance! iPhoto does this particularly well/
Bhagyesh Dash wrote:
Thanks. A large enough EHD Seems the best option. And every few years replace with new EHD for new photos?
Of course not, just get good size EHDs (you can 6TB EHDs now) and ensure they are backed up.
Tx guys - any suggestion on large, reliable EHDS? There is talk the wireless option but seems wired ones are more reliable?
Evertbody is suggesting LARGE EHD. I would suggest, in light of low prices, 3 terabyte, That is size of mine.
Tx Bruno - any suggestions on which one? Samsung? Lacie? There is also this talk about getting a wireless EHD so you have your own "Cloud" - any thoughts on that? Barracuda was the one recommended.
It is Western Digital. I bought it some couple of month ago for under $100. With WD I had good experience and price looked to me right.
I/d recommend these (I have several Mercury Elite Pro):
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/
Personally, I prefer slightly smaller drives, but more of them - the reason being that all drives fail at some point, so I want 2 copies of everything I have on two different drives rather than all of it on one. As for WD, their drives are fine; their enclosures are very cheap though which may present a problem down the road. I also would not go wireless for large file sizes unless you have an ultra-fast internet connection.
Thanks guys ! Appreciated.
Organising and saving photos and videos
