I have two 2tb hard drives with data, and both of them are mostly full. I work with video editing, photo editing, as well as normal office files. Currently I have a directory for documents / gimp photo editing, which is then subdivided by year. And I'll do the same with my video editing files – create a sub directory for each year.
I have an extra SSD drive that I can put into this main PC, and I'm thinking about using it for housing the current year for documents / photo editing and video editing files. In order to keep things simpler for my family, as well as preserve links in video files, I'm thinking about creating virtual directories in the original locations which would point to the SSD. For example:
D : \ Documents\2016
will be a virtual directory pointing to
F : \ Documents\2016 …. Which is on the SSD.
And then at the end of the year I would move the data from the SSD onto the HD and create a new virtual directory. This should make saving / opening photo and video files quicker. I think using virtual folders may also automatically add them to my current backup process, but I'll test that and adding a couple locations isn't a big deal.
Anyone do something similar?
Note that housing ALL of my documents /video editing files on the SSD is not an option now, I don't have the space… although I I may buy a new larger SSD drive in the future which would be large enough. Then I would then keep only the raw video / picture files from the camera, as well as rendered video files on the HDs.
I have an extra SSD drive that I can put into this main PC, and I'm thinking about using it for housing the current year for documents / photo editing and video editing files. In order to keep things simpler for my family, as well as preserve links in video files, I'm thinking about creating virtual directories in the original locations which would point to the SSD. For example:
D : \ Documents\2016
will be a virtual directory pointing to
F : \ Documents\2016 …. Which is on the SSD.
And then at the end of the year I would move the data from the SSD onto the HD and create a new virtual directory. This should make saving / opening photo and video files quicker. I think using virtual folders may also automatically add them to my current backup process, but I'll test that and adding a couple locations isn't a big deal.
Anyone do something similar?
Note that housing ALL of my documents /video editing files on the SSD is not an option now, I don't have the space… although I I may buy a new larger SSD drive in the future which would be large enough. Then I would then keep only the raw video / picture files from the camera, as well as rendered video files on the HDs.
