How many photos can 1TB store?

About 250,000 photos at 4MB each from a phone camera, or about 50,000 RAW photos from a DSLR at 20MB each. Most families can store decades of photos on a 2TB drive.

Should I back up to SSD or HDD?

SSD for your active working library because of speed. HDD for long-term archives because of cost per terabyte. Ideally, use both—SSD for access and HDD for archival backup.

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