Haha, yes, at least 300! I remember the topic of deleting photos came up at ACTION last year and I wasn’t quite convinced, but after having too many full hard drive problems, I’m willing to adjust my perspective. 😂
Thank you very much for your insight and your very thorough explanations! You have a good point about the few dollar price difference for double the space…so I think I’ll go the 2TB route for peace of mind and so I don’t have to worry about upgrading, since my unculled photo file is pretty close to yours.
I was shopping around for the Western Digital Elements Hard Drives, and they were hard to find (small town problems!) but I found them online through a local store that deals with electronics. I’ll take your advice for Option #2 and keep two copies. I’ve looked at cloud options before and can’t get over how expensive they are for how much space I’d need, so I’ll stick to physical hard drives. 🙂 Fire could potentially be a problem, but like you said if something did happen, God didn’t need the photos and apparently we didn’t either.
My current setup includes editing all my photos off my internal hard drive and then every month or so (or whenever I’m dealing with bigger projects I don’t want to lose), I back up my computer to a 2TB back-up hard drive. So that’s also an extra peace of mind.
Anyways, thanks again for your help and breaking everything down the way you did; it made it super easy for me to understand! 🙂
Morgan