Work Ahead of Me...

The last year I have struggled with having just enough backup storage to pi** me off and having files scattered hither and yon... so last week I broke down and bought a Western Digital MyCloud 3 terabyte NAS (network attached storage) device and it came today.

This will help me keep all of my files in a centralized location instead of old pictures on a 120 GB drive in the closest, a 1TB hard drive at my desk, a 1TB portable hard drive in my desk drawer (or laptop bag...or wherever it lands) and files scattered between my media desktop, my main desktop, my HP laptop and my MacBook Air.

I started with backing up my hours of entertainment have I have stored on my media system, which is a minuscule 276 GB and it is showing approximately 7 hours transfer time! This is definitely a process I will have to kick off at night and let run behind the scenes!

My hopes are to organize all of my pictures into a single folder with subfolders for each year.  There's a bum load of pictures to transfer...best guess is around 60,000 - 80,000.  Ugh! I really need to print a few sets of pictures off at a time and delete the bad ones.

This poor device will be sick of transferring data before it's all said and done.