Where do you download your images to?

[terrytowel]

Hey everybody. I recently had to install a new hard-drive and various other upgrades on my 7 year Dell Computer. I wondered why I waited so long! It works so much better now (and much faster too!)

I feel with this new hard drive, I’m turning a new chapter and making a fresh start. So the question is for the more experienced webmasters out there is; when you download content to use on blog posts or free sites, where do you save to?

Do you save right on your hard-drive? Or do you save to a flash drive or even on a CD? Because of my past problems with the hard drive (being so slow) I only want to put what is absolutely necessary on the hard-drive, so it continues to work smoothly.

Thanks everyone!

[gaydemon_jr]

I'm not really an experienced webmaster.. but I reckon I can comment here. I have a network drive which I save everything to, and it can be accessed remotely. It keeps the computer free for programs etc. I recommend saving directly to the drive, but make sure you keep a backup somewhere too.

[Gaystoryman]

I am a paranoid bitch, so I do a lot of redundant copying. I save the original copy to one of my external hard drives. I save a working copy to my network drive and to another external hard drive. Then I set up a directory on my computer's hard drive to use for each project, pulling the image from my network drive. I save to my hard drive the image and all the alterations or whatever such as resizing or renaming. I also save a copy on the network drive, under the project name as a sub folder of the original working copy image.

It is also about how you categorize the images, least for me. I will set up one main folder, IMAGES, then split that into sub folders for blogs, or whatever. That way it is easier for me to find later on after I have long forgotten about them.

[raunchpup]

Hey everybody. I recently had to install a new hard-drive and various other upgrades on my 7 year Dell Computer. I wondered why I waited so long! It works so much better now (and much faster too!)

I feel with this new hard drive, I’m turning a new chapter and making a fresh start. So the question is for the more experienced webmasters out there is; when you download content to use on blog posts or free sites, where do you save to?

Do you save right on your hard-drive? Or do you save to a flash drive or even on a CD? Because of my past problems with the hard drive (being so slow) I only want to put what is absolutely necessary on the hard-drive, so it continues to work smoothly.

Thanks everyone!

First,
I wouldnt consider this a webMaster question. What you should do is contact someone on a board with administration understanding. What i did first is on paper make up a set up of how i wanted my hdd organized. that way everything had a place after that i considered downloads i broke my downloads into two groups use alot and rarely used. anything rarely used went to an external hard drive used a lot went into a temp file.
i, as it was explained to me, most important to set up a good structure of you hdd before downloading anything.
I hope that helps.
I use my external hdd alot for my internet files at a 2.0 connection i still get the speed i want
just my 2 cents
raunchpup

[dzinerbear]

If I had saved all of my stuff to external hard drives, I'd have a bleeding scalp by now. (I have no hair left to pull out.) I've had three or four hard drives die on me in the past couple of years, and I would have lost all of that content.

If you're going to use externals, I'd make sure you have a UPS power source to keep the power supply clean. Otherwise, you could end up turning on your computer one day and finding a dead external hard drive.

Michael

[marcjacob]

I just keep it on my normal hard drive as its on the server anyway, and for $5 a month Hosthead make a duplicate of the server hard disk every night. Id have to be mega unlucky to loose all 3.

[HunkMoneyLuke]

Since its a new HD, I am betting its a huge one so you shouldn't have to worry so much about space, just organization and backup.

The way I organize things is I have 3 folders where i store stuff, one is for files that I use every day (this is also where I have my outlook pst stored), one is for files that I use less frequently but want to keep, and one is for those temp files that I use, upload then don't care about. I also tend to make loads of subfolders so that I keep stuff somewhat organized. I do backups of the first 2 folders regularly, and I empty out the 3rd one frequently.

Hope that helps!

[terrytowel]

Thanks to everyone for their advice and feedback! Gives me a lot to think about. Thanks again!

[gaybucks_chip]

Our major assets (video clips, still sets, etc) are stored on one of 3 external RAID-5 arrays linked through our gigabit network.

That makes it fast enough for just about anything, but separates the content on different machines in case of catastrophic drive failure.

I agree with Michael, we've had a ton of external drive failures and hardly use them at all any more, except for content transfer or temporary rendering or something.

We also back up local and RAID arrays to tape.

Irreplacable data, such as HD content where the master is electronic rather than on tape, is stored on 2 separate RAID arrays in addition to tape backup.

It's overkill, but we've had enough drive failures to be a little paranoid.