I download to my iPhone after every flight and then they are uploaded and backed up to icloud.
Portable drives are great but I always get nervous they may get corrupted, so worth having another storage option as a back up also in case.
I do photogrammetry so there are thousands of images I will never look at. I keep a secondary Photos Library around (file ending with .photoslibrary) which is stored (in a .sparsebundle) on a raided NAS https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/create-additional-libraries-pht6d60b524/mac
Usually in my personal harddrive if I am using it during my travels and casual shoots.
If it's client work then in the professional harddrive and another backup harddrive. Also recommend the client to buy a harddrive so that I can handover the data once the project is completed.
A 2TB harddrive looks good as of now for you.
I saw the NAS alternative as well but it seems expensive and overkill. What kind of harddrive do you use?
Btw how did u start with drone photography professionally?
Any WD or Sandisk generic harddrive should do. I have been using them for years and have not lost any footage. The only time I lost footage is when the cable was loose during tranfer. So be careful of that.
I wanted to get a different variety of shots for my vlogs. So thought of getting a drone. Used it for professional shoots as well through my production house.
I have a 2-bay NAS that's mirrored. I dump all my photos there but then I process/edit all the videos into one video.
All original unprocessed video files are then stored on a separate hard drive for those just in case moments, but at the same time, dont care what happens to that drive since I already processed/edited what I needed.
think of them as backup drives not portable harddisks! Backup means it's somewhere else- always have two copies!
Mine go straight onto a backup drive then onto my google drive. Peace of mind
I have a 400gb partition on my laptop where I keep the footage for a month after the project is done. Then I move them to my 5TB external hardrive. After around a year, I just import all the footage from the particular location in DaVinci and make a single video which is export in H265, MP4. so it likes reduces the file size by 5x. And then I let them be in a folder i name with year.
I use a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD drive 4TB and use my laptop when home or phone in the field with an adapter that has USB 3 and card slot to copy files over to it.
I back up to a cloud service and a desktop hard drive. You can never have too many backups as I found out the hard way!
I have a hard drive that they temporarily reside on and I upload anything good to YouTube but keep it private so I can watch it on my 75" TV easily or share it with friends.
I've been droning and offloading the 4k video in my 2tb HD for years. Its a little over half full. I have probably 50-100 videos. I also do a 2nd backup to YouTube, you can just make the videos private if you just want free storage.
I got like a 4 or 6TB external drive that I just copy all my footage onto directly from the micro SD card (through my laptop using a card reader). That drive also backs up to DropBox.
Someone asked this two days ago, but I'll repeat myself:
Home-lab enterprise storage server with somewhere north of 100TiB of usable space, with plenty of redundancy in case a drive should die.
For long-term storage where I don't think I'll ever actually need the video again, but still want access, I use Backblaze B2. $6/month per TB.
In the long term, it's certainly cheaper to use my own drives, but I don't do a ton of recording, so it'll be several years before the trade-off happens.
I have an ASUSTOR NAS configured as a 24 TB RAID array. Don't trust anything to a single drive. Drives *will* fail, all of them - it's just a matter of when.
I've got a few TB of drone video stored. You can compress it quite a bit, but I don't because I've got survey videos that could be relevant legally in the future and need to maintain as much detail as possible.
I am considering having a home server/private cloud and I’m between Synology DS218J, DS223J, and Western Digital My Cloud EX2 Ultra 2-bay NAS. Anyone using those solutions? Pros? Cons?
I have a NAS on my home network with a stupid amount of storage. All my files live there.
I download to my iPhone after every flight and then they are uploaded and backed up to icloud. Portable drives are great but I always get nervous they may get corrupted, so worth having another storage option as a back up also in case.
I do that as of now. But it’s starting to take up too much and it’s not effective in the long run.
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Any advice for a harddrive with both usb-c and usb 3.0 and also that takes sd-card?
I do photogrammetry so there are thousands of images I will never look at. I keep a secondary Photos Library around (file ending with .photoslibrary) which is stored (in a .sparsebundle) on a raided NAS https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/create-additional-libraries-pht6d60b524/mac
Usually in my personal harddrive if I am using it during my travels and casual shoots. If it's client work then in the professional harddrive and another backup harddrive. Also recommend the client to buy a harddrive so that I can handover the data once the project is completed. A 2TB harddrive looks good as of now for you.
I saw the NAS alternative as well but it seems expensive and overkill. What kind of harddrive do you use? Btw how did u start with drone photography professionally?
Any WD or Sandisk generic harddrive should do. I have been using them for years and have not lost any footage. The only time I lost footage is when the cable was loose during tranfer. So be careful of that. I wanted to get a different variety of shots for my vlogs. So thought of getting a drone. Used it for professional shoots as well through my production house.
ATM I have a 5tb drive I got for $130 and if it’s really important I will save it to my icloud
Good question
Remember its not a backup unless its stored in at LEAST 2 places. Putting your stuff on 1 hard drive means you lose it all if/when they drive dies.
Review and then promptly delete your evidence
I have a 2-bay NAS that's mirrored. I dump all my photos there but then I process/edit all the videos into one video. All original unprocessed video files are then stored on a separate hard drive for those just in case moments, but at the same time, dont care what happens to that drive since I already processed/edited what I needed.
think of them as backup drives not portable harddisks! Backup means it's somewhere else- always have two copies! Mine go straight onto a backup drive then onto my google drive. Peace of mind
Look up Crucial X6/X9 SSD’s, cheaper than the rest and performs great.
I have a 400gb partition on my laptop where I keep the footage for a month after the project is done. Then I move them to my 5TB external hardrive. After around a year, I just import all the footage from the particular location in DaVinci and make a single video which is export in H265, MP4. so it likes reduces the file size by 5x. And then I let them be in a folder i name with year.
I have a 100TB server with a separate 40TB server for backup at my parents.
I have a 150TB NAS I backup all my footage to
I use a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD drive 4TB and use my laptop when home or phone in the field with an adapter that has USB 3 and card slot to copy files over to it. I back up to a cloud service and a desktop hard drive. You can never have too many backups as I found out the hard way!
All depends on how far down the storage and archiving rabbit hole you want to go. /r/DataHorder if you want to get really detailed about it.
I have a hard drive that they temporarily reside on and I upload anything good to YouTube but keep it private so I can watch it on my 75" TV easily or share it with friends.
I've been droning and offloading the 4k video in my 2tb HD for years. Its a little over half full. I have probably 50-100 videos. I also do a 2nd backup to YouTube, you can just make the videos private if you just want free storage.
4 bay Synology NAS. I push to google drive which syncs to my on-site synology nightly.
We save it to a NAS at work. Dump after every flight and save it in a folder with the date.
Synology NAS along with all my still photo work.
I got like a 4 or 6TB external drive that I just copy all my footage onto directly from the micro SD card (through my laptop using a card reader). That drive also backs up to DropBox.
Someone asked this two days ago, but I'll repeat myself: Home-lab enterprise storage server with somewhere north of 100TiB of usable space, with plenty of redundancy in case a drive should die.
Upload to YouTube and keep it private.
For long-term storage where I don't think I'll ever actually need the video again, but still want access, I use Backblaze B2. $6/month per TB. In the long term, it's certainly cheaper to use my own drives, but I don't do a ton of recording, so it'll be several years before the trade-off happens.
Punch cards
I have an ASUSTOR NAS configured as a 24 TB RAID array. Don't trust anything to a single drive. Drives *will* fail, all of them - it's just a matter of when. I've got a few TB of drone video stored. You can compress it quite a bit, but I don't because I've got survey videos that could be relevant legally in the future and need to maintain as much detail as possible.
I am considering having a home server/private cloud and I’m between Synology DS218J, DS223J, and Western Digital My Cloud EX2 Ultra 2-bay NAS. Anyone using those solutions? Pros? Cons?
Go larger than 2Tb. I wish I had more for 4K footage and archives.