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When I entered digital photography in 2003, the question quickly arose as to how to best digitally archive my large collection of photos. Initially, we only had a folder structure as physical hard disk storage, and this has remained the same until now:
Currently, we store our photos on a RAID tower, with data ordered sequentially by years, months, and days. A second RAID tower and a RAID NAS serve as backup media.
Additionally, we had established a standard nomenclature for our files early on, as shown:

The file name consists of the year, month, and day of the photo, followed by the photographer's initials and a sequential four-digit number.

However...

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