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Old 28-09-2021, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Merlin66 View Post
Stephane,
A few solar images can quickly add up to hundreds of Gb
After a couple days of clear sky the fast SSD drive (500Gb) is full.


I now use two 3Tb backup drives to keep the data, but I do need to question which data I keep and why!!!
Thanks for the reply. Looks like SSDs are the way to go then. I just had a look online and was pleasantly surprised at the low cost.

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Originally Posted by multiweb View Post
SSDs have come down in price so you can hot swap them. If you do deepsky you won't need as much storage as if you do solar or planetary as Ken mentioned. On a typical night of planetary imaging I do 250GB/hour.
I will be looking to do deepsky, so that's good to know! Thanks for replying.
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