I have a pair of 6TB external drives that I download (and mirror for backup) my photos to. They were nearly full, so eventually I’ll have to get a larger pair, but I wondered if I could delete some photos and put off that expense to later in the year.

It turns out that apparently I used to be much less stringent about immediately deleting photos I didn’t like, be they out of focus, repetitive, badly exposed, poorly composed, or whatever.

This evening in an hour or two I cleared nearly 100GB of space just by going through a couple of years of photos. I suspect a few more hours over the next few days and I’ll be able to clear another 100-200GB.

I also have an 8TB RAID NAS (Network Attached Storge) that I back up to.

You can never have too many backups!