2500 photos stored in iPhoto

[JoshD]

Question,

Anyone know approx how many gigabytes that is? These are full resolution size pictures.

I ask because I am down to 12gb on my iBook G4, and wondering if it would be worth it transferring these photos to CD's or something to free up some space.

Thanks

[Sebastian]

No matter what you should copy them to another media as backup. One copy of all your images is asking for disaster.

As for how many GBs that is, why don't you just right-click on your library (or CMD-i) and find out? We can't tell you, it depends on pixel size, compression, ISO, image detail, etc. Way too many factors to guess.

[JoshD]

No matter what you should copy them to another media as backup. One copy of all your images is asking for disaster.

As for how many GBs that is, why don't you just right-click on your library (or CMD-i) and find out? We can't tell you, it depends on pixel size, compression, ISO, image detail, etc. Way too many factors to guess.

duh, all i gotta do is right click, good call sorry, its 2447mb...im no mathematical genious but i take it thats 2.47 GB,not that much. You are right though, I should back it up regardless

[danag42]

How about a simple RAID 1 volume? It requires two disks for the storage of one, but it's fault-tolerant because it keeps identical copies on two drives, which look like one drive to the system.

If a hard drive goes out, you get another one and rebuild the array. No loss of data.