Field operations
How much storage will our field photos and backups need?
Multiply jobs by photos per job for weekly originals. Multiply by average megabytes, total copies and retained weeks. Use decimal storage units of 1,000 MB per GB and enter the average size after any compression.
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Worked example
With the example inputs below, the calculator returns these results.
Storage across retained copies (GB) 50.96
- Jobs per week
- 35 jobs
- Photos per job
- 8 photos
- Average photo size
- 3.5 MB
- Retention period
- 26 weeks
- Stored copies including originals
- 2 copies
Other results
- Original photos retained
- 7,280
- New storage per week (GB)
- 1.96
Use your own figures
Plan workspace storage using typical photo size and retention time. Open the worksheet, replace the example values, then copy or print the result.
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