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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hikari" data-source="post: 113174" data-attributes="member: 3442">First, get out of iPhoto. It is a nightmare. Then simply organize your photo in regular folder on a hard drive. Use Lightroom to view and search for them. Simply up load you images from a card into a transfer folder on your desktop and then put the images in the right place in your system from there.As far as storage, I would look into two things if you don't have them. You want a Time Machine running on your system. This a mirrow of your system and will have everything if it goes belly up--the software should be in your OSX. Second you need an external hard drive, not one of those you are looking at, a bigger one. Get a RAID array--I found the LaCie 2 Big Quadra the best value. That is were you store your images. One drive is a mirror of the other so you have a backup copy if the drive dies. Then you buy one more drive for your external RAID. Every month you switch out a drive and keep it in your office or other location. If you house burns down or someone steals your computer and drives, you have a copy at least of everything up to the time you swapped the drive.</blockquote>