how much storage do your photos take up?

magicbastarder

just wondering...

magicbastarder

also, what deletion policies do you have?
i've managed to amass close to 90GB in about 12 years of photography. mostly film, so there are obviously fewer shots taken and fewer still scanned.

.Longshanks.

20.1 GB as of today.
90% of which was probably accumulated in the past 12 months

Cabaal

Only 320GB odd, not much considering the period its
I'm expecting to see a few posters with 2-3TB easy in this thread

magicbastarder

i'd probably be a bit of a cranky old luddite (odd in a thread about storage), but if you're not doing it for money, then i reckon anyone over 1TB has a seriously underused delete button.

magicbastarder

i just realised that i must have chosen the wrong option in my own poll - there's none as yet selected between 50 and 200GB. whoops.

NORTH1

a little over the 500g 90% rubbish too, and I'm too lazy to go back deleting. I'm going to have to start soon. I use to transfare them onto DVD back up disks, I have ended up with wallets full of disks with dates on them and little idea whats on them!

phog

12,600 files, 248 folders and 16GBs.

magicbastarder

mine is 87.3GB, for 7,021 files. so about 12MB per photo on average.

kensutz

Currently about 3TB or close enough.

GavinZac

4GB at the moment. I don't trust my own hard disks (learned the hard, scratchy, clicky way), so its pretty much just the last memory card I unloaded that's ever there. I upload to flickr ASAP and a backup service called backupify.com (which is free for sign ups at the moment, btw, and will probably be very expensive soon, so sign up now and its 'free for life') automatically backs those up too.

smelltheglove

I have over 1tb in the last 2 years alone. Deletion process so for me is yet non existent, I keep all my raws along with edits on harddrives and backup edits with discs for the just in case scenario, I intend to leave my disc backups in my mother in laws house in the near future so God forbid anything hasppens I will at least have my edits.

RoryW

69.0 gb as of today
19,395 files

Then looking at Lightroom to see how many are filed in LR
Total 6225
2007 & Prior 1538
2008 3273 (tidy up/deletion in progress)
2009 1449 (tidy up/deletion in progress)

eoindc

17.6 GB -> 13,430 Files, 219 Folders

All in the last 2 years. As soon as i upgrade to a real camera those numbers are going to dramatically increase!

Kbeg3

255 GB in the last two years

PCPhoto

digital stuff ..... I have about 6TB......all chronilogically...on external hard drives.

Probably have another 2-3TB stored on CD/DVD...... and 3 big boxes of film negs from the 80's/90's (completely unorganised).

really should take a month or two....or three and organise myself.

WedPhoto

i have over 300GB for the last 3 years. i'm always shooting raw.

SBPhoto

I have 5TB stored away on HDrives, and 2 1TB HD working at the moment, attached to main computor which are 75% full

pixbyjohn

Approximately 1TB on external raid 1 drives and DVD/CDs

Borderfox

I have around 6-7 tb in storage about 60% full, this will be trimmed back with a lot of raw files going.

SinisterDexter

150gb from 3 years of Raw & Jpeg - need some deleting but I generally delete as I go these days. Storing on 2 external hard drives (one is a backup of the other so if one sits down I am not losing my mind)

magicbastarder

i don't keep any RAW files.
my camera produces RAW files of over 13MB, but DNG conversions usually weigh in about 6MB - is this to compression, or discarding of unnecessary information?

TPD

Only about 7Gb, just been photographing a year and sadly not very actively. It's on two different hard drives though so 14Gb space used.