Common opinions seems to been "Hard disks are cheap, just keep all the RAW files"... until the disks are far from cheap nowadays - has it affected to you?
Many many years I have read at least here on Reddit and maybe on other places as well that it is same to shoot RAW and store all the images as a RAW since hard disks are so cheap. As many of you might have noticed, things about the pricing of the hard disks have changed rather quickly for worse in point of view of the consumers.
Three years ago I bought 16 TB hard disk to my NAS and it was a 288,99 euros, but now when I check the price of that same disk on same place (tho not available anymore) it is 684,99 euros. Price difference is huge.
Personally I shoot now RAW + JPEG, use 99,9 % time only JPEG and keep RAW's on hard disk as a backup. JPEG photos of this year so far is about 46,7 GB, RAW photos is taking 50,9 GB but I have not yet copied all RAW photos to my hard disks. It is safe to say that so far in three months I have shot maybe ~110 GB. If I continue shooting this way it will be about 0,5 TB/year unless something changes radically.
Since I still have lots of free space on my hard disks I have not yet needed to change anything on my shooting style. My number of shots are quite small (maybe 10.000 to 30.000 shots per year) so I can still keep all my images in RAW + JPEG, but how about you? Have you changed anything in your shooting because of price increases in hard disks?
Some people seems to shoot lots of photos in burst modes and the amount of data what is generated is huge, so especially I am keen to know, have these price increases changed the way you shoot or at least store your images, and if so, how?
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