Non-destructive techniques in Photoshop

[Trevor Dennis]

Heck. Multiple drives are a no brainer nowadays. We had that glitch a couple of years back with the Taiwan floods, but drives are very affordable, as is RAM. Big tower systems are great for cooling and expansion, and external USB3 drives are easily fast enough to be fully usable. (I am talking about the kind with their own PSU like the WD My Books).

With video you really have no choice. My big video camera records 50Mb/s, and even DSLRs recording h.264 1080 fill cards alarmingly fast. A small project might have hundreds of hours of work invested in it, so backup is essential. So I am up to 14Tb over 12 drives including two raid0 and five USB3 externals. What's more, I have lost two drives in the last three years, both of which had important data. Thanks to Shadow Protect's incremental backups, I only lost about ten minutes work.

 

[MikeMc]

Where is the erase function? Are you serious?

yeppers....NEVER have used it....I was taught masking..I add black and white...no erasing [innocent]

 

[MikeMc]

I thought we were beyond the days when hard drives were filling up, I personally have 5 Tbs of hard drives on my machine, I also have a 4 Tb NAS drive for my own personal local cloud all accessible from any computer on my network. ANd then failing that I also have my own cloud network hosted online that has several Terabytes worth of space that I host on the back end of my dedicated servers. so if you cant afford an extra hard drive that is about $90 for a 1 TB drive you can buy web hosting from godaddy or similar that for $5 a month gives you unlimited space, and create your own cloud storage or ftp access.

So where as hundreds of 10 - 100 mb psds are not ideal it is not as if we are confined to 120 GB hard drives these days, STorage is cheap, hosting is dirt cheap there is always a solution to get more storage.

Have to agree 1T portable drives are as low as $40. I just added another for backup