External vs Internal HD

[Kayaker72]

Thanks everyone...

Just to add, my back up system is to have an active back up to a external HD. Actually, as we speak, a new WD My Book is humming as it backs up my different hard drives. I then have various "My Passport" external hard drives. A couple just lying around, but, more importantly, two that I keep offsite that I update periodically. I know some people back up to the cloud, but I prefer to have physical hard drives.

What I am trying to do is decide where to store photos that I am actively working on as my current hard drive (from 2016) is full. I do not have to move the information off my current hard drives. But, you make a good point, two of those hard drives are from 2011 and the other is from 2016. No failures yet, but....

From my perspective I do not like your Nephews advice. I would be looking to upgrade, after all you are on year 9. You were probably storing and manipulating files from the 7D or the 5D II in 2011. For now get an external, when you upgrade you can use the external to put everything on the new machine.

Yep, when I built this computer I was shooting the 7D. As for the new computer, it is just a matter of when. I have been making upgrades to this computer over the years. As it currently stands, 32 GB of DDR3 1666 RAM, AMD 8 core 4 GHz processor, GeForce 1050i video card, etc. And it works very well. But, I will want to upgrade before it starts having issues and newer faster is out there.

Thanks for the help.