Quote Originally Posted by Busted Knuckles View Post
I quick trip to best buy for USB drives are $100 per terabyte - storage is cheap a 1 tb drive would take 20 years to fill up at your rate of usage.
Quote Originally Posted by HDNitehawk View Post
Go with full Raw.

In a year or so online backup will be cost and time prohibitive.
I have four years worth of RAW files saved now and have 1.7 TB in files.
External hard drives are cheap and you are a long way from having storage issues.
Thanks. I was trying to figure out my off-premise backup and realized online might be costly based on what I have now. With full raw it will add up. I have a mirrored 1 TB NAS drive as my main storage and as that fills, I can easily swap those out to 2 TB, so main storage is good and handles hardware failures.

Online backup would have been easier since once it is setup it is automated. I have some external drives, that is just more work to manage doing the backups and getting them offsite.

Carbonite says it has unlimited backup. You have to get the pricier plan for external drives, I just need to research if they exclude raw or start having limitations in the fine print. I am willing to pay a little more if it is automated and hands off. My worry with external drives is the discipline to keep up with it and not have them sitting in the house in the event of fire, flood, etc.

Eric