How many gigs of photos do you have?

OK, so after a short time with my new DSLR, I've found that I am just eating through my 500GB hard drive in no time. So I'm wondering if I'm just a pack rat, so the question is, "How many gigs of photos do you have (RAW, TIFF, JPEG, etc) in total?

purge anything you won't use, ever. no point in keeping the bad ones

we're looking at the 1TB My Books at costco online right now if that answers you question

Pft...if you mean just the ones I've taken, it'd amount to around 600GB. I've only been digital for about a year and 8 months.

I've got 1.6TB on my xps, though, so I should be good for a while.

I've got close to 100 gigs of pictures. However, lot's of videos I've taken are also mixed in there. I'd say theres about 30 gigs of pictures, and 70 gigs of video lol.

My archive collection is approximately 230 DVDs right now, mostly full
230x4.5GB = 1035GB about. Give or take 20GB. And then there is the misc shots on the current backup drive (a 500GB western digital) and all the additional TIF versions that are only on the backup drives because I can recreate them later (probably better ) so only keep the raw archive version. So somewhere just over a terabyte of images.

32GB but I am trying to be conservative with my 80GB hard drive that has only 10GB left that should last until midsummer around July.

maybe 5-10gb of Jpeg and 50 or so gb of raw
my hard drive filled up not too long ago so i went through and culled all the C**p
after moving all of my photos to my second hard disk it is now full again
time to get a big backup hard disk (and burn some of it to dvd)

About 200Gb selected ones on external Hdd now. Rest is backed up on CD/DvD (about 250Cds and 150DvDs).
And off course a few Gig on internal Hdd awaiting processing.

BradT0517 wrote in post #2828628
32GB but I am trying to be conservative with my 80GB hard drive that has only 10GB left that should last until midsummer around July.

How can you live with only 80 gigs? I have 4 drives in my desktop, and I still run out of space more than I'd like to.

Photos from just the digital camera is only a fraction of the pics I have. I have been scanning in all my old photos as well as some of the family archival photos, some from the 1920’s and have been saving them as tiff files. Each of these photos alone can be 20meg so a gig gets eaten up pretty quick. I have many online on my hard drives but have archived many on DVD’s. Backing up is getting to be a pain.

BradT0517 wrote in post #2828628
32GB but I am trying to be conservative with my 80GB hard drive that has only 10GB left that should last until midsummer around July.

Savagebasher wrote in post #2830821
How can you live with only 80 gigs? I have 4 drives in my desktop, and I still run out of space more than I'd like to.

Haha! I know people that have 80 GB worth of CF cards.

After massive repetitive cleaning/culling and dumping of ones I won't ever use,. I'm down to between 250 and 300GB (mostly RAW files) on active hard drives.

I also tend to burn the DVDs prior to the more comprehensive 2nd wave culls, so in DVDs I'd be a little over 300GB or so.

I just added two more 500GB drives and converted my 500GB RAID-1 array to a 1 terabyte RAID 0+1 (4X 500GB drives)

gjl711 wrote in post #2830851
Photos from just the digital camera is only a fraction of the pics I have. I have been scanning in all my old photos as well as some of the family archival photos, some from the 1920’s and have been saving them as tiff files. Each of these photos alone can be 20meg so a gig gets eaten up pretty quick. I have many online on my hard drives but have archived many on DVD’s. Backing up is getting to be a pain.

I just started to back up to DVD, but I'll admit it is pain because it requires so much baby sitting. On top of that, I just don't trust the longevity of the media because I've had a decent amount of experience with DVDs and CDs becoming unreadable.

SunTsu wrote in post #2831368
I just started to back up to DVD, but I'll admit it is pain because it requires so much baby sitting. On top of that, I just don't trust the longevity of the media because I've had a decent amount of experience with DVDs and CDs becoming unreadable.

I have heard that as well though I have not had any CD/DVDs fail but have had many drives fail. In either case, it is my backup of a backup. All my pics are stored in three places, My working PC, that is my mail I turn it on every day PC. I run a RAID 0+1 disk array in that bad boy so I have some level of backup right there. Then I have a small slow backup PC. It’s only got a 1.4 Celeron in it but has 2 300 meg drives. Then finally I burn to DVDs. I use only Taiyo Yuden disks as they were the first to manufacture disks and pretty much have a reputation of having the finest quality in the business. In the states they are manufactured under different labels. I have not had any of them go bad on me yet. “Said with crossed fingers” Anyway, here is a fun FAQ site for the Taiyo Yuden disks and how to identify them. “click me”

The poll is a little misleading in that it only asks for what we have on hard drives. I don't archive on a hard drive. My images are burned off to CD or DVD fairly often. I only have 42Gb of images on my external drive, but I have 240Gb on discs.

Of course this doesn't take into account the some odd 10,000 unscanned slides or innumerable unscanned negatives I've accumulated over 40 years...