I use 8 external spinny drives but I usually have only four or five active. Two 
are for current photos. The others are archives. Critical current work is also 
backed up on iCloud and/or Dropbox. SSDs are growing more affordable
So I think my next two photo drives will be of that ilk,
Paul

> On Nov 19, 2017, at 1:33 AM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I use two external HDs.  One sits next to the computer and the other is in a 
> separate building in case of burglary or fire taking out #1.  I sync them 
> occasionally.  I use them for photos and as Time Machine backups.
> 
> If I ever come close to running out of space I'll buy new drives.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
>> On Nov 19, 2017, at 3:50 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have been using multiple ext hard drives for my back ups mostly
>> phots and  documents. I'm going to have to purge somethings next year,
>> running out of HD space probably by mid 2018 at current shooting rate.
>> U have everything on the Ext but would like to put it al in one spot
>> as well. One of our camera club members uses Crashplan but just
>> wondering what others can recommend to me. Crash plan does not offer
>> individual storage anymore just business but its $10 a month for
>> unlimited storage so its got that going for it.
>> 
>> 
>> Dave
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