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Originally Posted by chet
Yeah, but an outboard drive will eventually get filled up. I'd rather just have a bunch of DVDs around.
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You should consider how you store your digital pictures on your computer. At my house we have about 12GB of photos currently, and we're not actually "photographers", we just take a lot of pictures on visits and such.
Once your total photo collection exceeds what will fit on a DVD-R (not terribly difficult with today's camera resolutions), you either have to copy the entire archive each time you do a backup (which produces a pile of DVD's and takes a tedious amount of time, and the key to a successful backup strategy is to make it painless and automatic if possible), or store the photos on your HD in a way where you can easily determine where the "new" photos start.
External HD's are way more convenient that DVD's, and amazingly cheap. You can buy a Terabyte (1024 GB) for around $300 these days. Yes, it will eventually fill up, by which time $300 will buy you another magnitude of order of storage.