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Photographers on the other hand start out storing JPEGs on their computer, which are significantly larger than an averaged sized document, spreadsheet, even slide deck. In fact, those kinds of things tend to be so small there is a large percentage of people today storing those kinds of things in the cloud rather than having them on their computer. You can store hundreds of thousands of documents and spreadsheets on a computer. This is something photographers run into much faster than non-photographers. There is only so much that can be stored in the drive and you have filled it up so that it can’t store any more. When you see that it means you have run out of space on that drive inside your computer. The first wall for most photographers is the moment when they go to import their photos from a shoot to the computer and the computer tells them they are out of drive space. I want this to be a resource to provide guidance for photographers struggling with managing their storage but by no means will my advice and recommendations here be the ONLY way to do things. There are really good solutions for that first wall, but they tend to be very technical and there are so many options I see photographers get bogged down with analysis paralysis regularly. I like the visual of a photographer slamming into a wall with these storage issues. Both are significant enough problems I have referred to them as “walls” and photographers slam into these walls. One comes pretty early on in their journey, the second takes a bit more time. There are two major problems photographers face with regard to storage. (Hard Drive Storage Talk with Jim Harmer).This isn’t something unique to photographers, tends to be an issue for anyone using a computer, but photographers accelerate their need for more storage beyond what came with the computer quickly.īecause photographers tend to need help here quickly, I have done numerous episodes on this topic over the years. There are lots of things that take up space on that drive. We end up with a resource in our computers that is limited. PCs have traditionally been a little easier to work with here but the trend for a laptop PC is to make this not something that is well supported. Today with Macs it is pretty difficult to upgrade the drive that comes with the computer, most photographers will be stuck with whatever they bought when they ordered the computer. You could replace the drive that came with your computer with something bigger and/or faster. In the past the drive in your computer was something you could upgrade. Today the common sizes of that drive in your computer is 256GB for a small one, 512GB, 1TB, 2TB or higher. The storage we are talking about here is the drive inside your computer that stores information even after your computer is powered off. Memory today comes in sizes like 8GB, 16GB, 32GB or more. Memory is a form of storage but it only stores information while your computer is on. Don’t confuse this with “memory” or “RAM”. The more technical term for that is “storage”. Let’s talk about the problems that photographers face with hard drive space. Hard Drive Space Problems for Photographers
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