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I've just had one of my external hard drives fail whilst importing to lightroom, and the resultant hassle has triggered a desire to streamline and improve my cataloguing, storage and backup processes.
At the moment photos are stored across lots of portable hard drives and important stuff is backed up on yet more external drives. I'm starting to get fed up though of Lightroom losing track of which folders are on which drives so am looking to spend some time and money to sort it out more efficiently, but could use some advice as I'm not really sure what the best strategy would be.
I'm thinking 2x 5TB external drives: One main, one backup for 'proper' photos, transferring all the existing stuff to the main drive, merging all the catalogues and tidying up. Then for lesser stuff, the more everyday stuff I was thinking of having an extra internal drive, and could use the existing drives to back up OS, documents etc.
Any thoughts, any different strategies I should consider?
At the moment photos are stored across lots of portable hard drives and important stuff is backed up on yet more external drives. I'm starting to get fed up though of Lightroom losing track of which folders are on which drives so am looking to spend some time and money to sort it out more efficiently, but could use some advice as I'm not really sure what the best strategy would be.
I'm thinking 2x 5TB external drives: One main, one backup for 'proper' photos, transferring all the existing stuff to the main drive, merging all the catalogues and tidying up. Then for lesser stuff, the more everyday stuff I was thinking of having an extra internal drive, and could use the existing drives to back up OS, documents etc.
Any thoughts, any different strategies I should consider?