Originally posted by abieleck For apple users, how many of you store your photo database on your system hard drive, and how many use an external storage drive? Just wondering if it would be worth it to upgrade to the 2 TB drive or just roll with the 1 TB external Western Digital I have now.
I opted for the 2TB internal on my 2011 iMac mainly because I read how they are not "user-upgradeable" if I need more space in the future, and I put a 500GB Bootcamp partition for (ugh) Windows on it. However, like Frogfish, I also have a string of external drives (dear me... 2x1TB, 1x2TB, 1x4TB RAID), but they are for work-related content, which averages 5GB of new data a week, and the
all-important TimeMachine backup.
Note that your TimeMachine external drive will need at least as much space as the (data on the) drive(s) it is backing up, but prefers to have 50% more. The "extra space" allows you to have multiple versions and "incrementally graded" backups (allows you to restore your data from what was saved yesterday, last week, or two months ago, etc.).