Comment Re:USB Drive, SAN/NAS, LTO ... (Score 1) 680
I have strong feelings about this. As a consultant who often has to backup the data from the hard drives of home users, I've noticed that, because of the ability of modern digital cameras to store sometimes hundreds of pictures, the user will invariably take dozens of pictures of the *exact same bloody thing*. Such as their kid playing with a puppy: you only need one or two; you do not need to take so many that you could create a stop-motion movie of the event. If you want video of the action, take a video, but for Gord's sake just take one or two photos that *really matter* and be done with it. There, you will instantly save hard drive space.
Sorry for the rant, it it gets really boring backing up the picture folders which hold vast quantities of redundant photos, but which the user insists they cannot live without.