If instead you move files from one Volume to another using Apple’s Finder, it actually copies those rather than moves them. *My cousin George, who used to work over at Lightroom, explains that it is safer to move your files using Finder, not Lightroom - because Lightroom can sometimes have errors during the ‘move’ process. The portable drive resides in a separate location apart from my home, so that if my house were to catch fire or get bombed, I would still have my backups. I then back up the raid drive to a single, portable 10 TB drive once a month. I move the photos from my computer onto the Raid drive from within Lightroom by simply dragging the file folders from one volume to the next (*see note below). I use Raid 5 because that provides an extra layer of safety against lost data: if one of the drives suddenly takes a nose dive, I don’t lose any data. Raid drives provide much faster read/write speeds than a single drive can. To avoid bloating the hard drive, I regularly move those photos to my external raid drive. My originals are stored on my laptop’s hard drive by default.

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