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I'd love to know what you all think is a good method to store these digital files at home in such a way that they can be: 1. easily viewed at home. 2. easily pa

• microship 4y ago
  My default delivery vehicle is thumb drives, with copies for relatives and instructions to copy them to a primary system and use the thumb as a backup. For photos, I often deliver JPGs via SmugMug for folks who want to share a collection with family and maybe print a few, but that does not solve the problem of storing RAW files (big, though most people just want the more familiar and much smaller JPGs). Same for film and video files. When a collection gets big, I prefer the T5 or T7 SSD, or if cost-sensitive I deliver on USB HD. When a client wants to distribute a little bit of video to relatives, I sometimes put it in my Vimeo account as a private file, or use Dropbox (though they punished me recently for "oversharing a file" even though that was never defined!). But the default is just USB3 thumb drives... so cheap and easy. Sometimes people want DVD, but I try to talk them out of it unless it is for a parent who has nothing else. A decade from now, people will find people like me t get the video files off those shiny discs, with drives no longer available. But that doesn't really answer your question. I use a NAS and some combination of cloud and local filesystems, but it really is a hard problem to do it well if the collection is sprawling. Proper archiving is an art, with a ton of setup time to establish a framework.
  • misterprime 4y ago
    Thank you for this detailed reply.