Greetings! Serious photography enthusiast here whose current storage solution is fading away with all the digital images I have been (and will be) creating. As such, I am adding more storage, while at the same time, implementing a new backup strategy. My current setup is very simple. One user (myself), running a 2015 edition MacBook Pro (1 TB drive). Most of my 2015 images are there. I also have a 1 TB external HDD where all of my 2014 (and earlier images reside). This drive is also partitioned for Time Machine backups. Finally, I have an Amazon S3 account where I also backup (via Jungle Disk) to act as my "offsite" backup. That is it. Here is what I am thinking about ... please let me know your thoughts:
LaCie3TB d2 Thunderbolt 2 External Hard Drive:
This would be my main image storage drive. I would plan to get most, if not all, of my images off my MacBook Pro, and onto this drive
LaCie6TB d2 Thunderbolt 2 External Hard Drive
This would be my main backup storage drive. I would use Apple’s Time Machine app to backup my photo storage LaCie3TB drive above, plus the drive inside my computer, plus my other 1 TB HDD that I would bring on the road with my when I go on the road for some travel photography. Time Machine would keep backing up until it fills the entire 6TB drive, then it deletes the oldest backup - which would be old enough at that point to not care about it. If the main 3TB photo drive should ever get corrupted, all I would have to do is reformat it, enter Time Machine, and place the backed up folders on the drive from this drive. Super simple, I think ...
In lieu of cloud storage, I would put this 6TB drive into a fireproof safe (when I travel) in my closet far away from my office. In the future, as online storage begins to get faster, that would inevitably become another viable option. But, trying to back up 6TB to an online server daily would take a long time to accomplish that large of a data transfer in our current market. But, I could be wrong ...
Thoughts/comments??? Thanks!