A few weeks back I had about 3 Gig of storage space on my PowerBook’s 100 Gig Hard Drive. My 250 Gig external drive is partitioned into a 100 Gig clone of my laptop drive, and the remaining segment was free space for video editing and and other file stuff. This partition had about 7 Gigs left.

I had just returned from a choir tour with 3000 new photos, many of which were to be stitched together to create panoramic photos. I realized I needed more storage space. So I went to Other World Computing, and purchased a 320 Gig Seagate hard drive. (Which actually turns out is really a 300 Gig hard drive, but I kinda expected as much…) As well as second NewerTech miniStack. (I love the look of the miniStacks. Can’t wait to get my next one!)

The first thing I did, when I got my new drive was set it up and hook it up to my computer. I then copied my iPhoto Library, (all 30+ Gigs of it) as well as 12 Gigs of Panoramic work to the new drive, and deleted the old files from their respective drives. (Leaving of course my backup drive with the photos on it.)

I then started working on some new panoramic photos from my tour. So far I have started on 12 panoramics from my tour. These 12 photo projects collectively take up 55 Gig of space. For those of you who are use to taking photos that are 1-2 MB in size, or those that have the nicer cameras and have images in the 2-4 MB size, you’re basically talking about workign with a 500-800 MB image file. I actually have a 1.55 Gig tiff file for one of the documents. These are the images that take 3-5 minutes to save, on my 1.67Ghz PowerBook with 2 Gig of Ram.

All together, I am using about 104 Gig on my new drive, and I still have a lot more work to do. I’m very glad I made the purchase.