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Hard Drive Back-Up
Western Digital offers a 500 gig Mybook external drive for about $150.00 Cdn, which is in my opinion a great deal. it has firewire/usb2 connectivity, for fast connections (I recommend firewire) it has a sleep mode and an auto powerdown mode. the led display on the front acts as a fuel guage to sho...
Posted by Don on 06/01/2008 - 14:09
Hard Drive Back-Up
I've been in the IT business more years than I care to remember. Part of my service to my customers is to recommend and test backup strategies for 'mission critical' company data. Basically, that's data that, if it went missing, could cause the demise of the company. I always recommend (in fact, ...
Posted by Mannesty on 06/01/2008 - 18:11
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[Engage] Devil's advocate mode, How many of us actually backed up our slides and negatives when film was the principal photographic medium? [Disengage] I'll get my coat :roll:
Posted by Pwynnej on 06/01/2008 - 21:00
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How many of us actually look at our slides and negatives? :shock:
Posted by johnriley on 06/01/2008 - 21:10
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Slides and negatives didn't just all evaporate at once due to the failure of a single transistor in a hard drive or a bug in an operating system... (although they are likely to be vulnerable to rain getting into the loft ;) ) Robin
Posted by rwg on 06/01/2008 - 21:28
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I was surprised at how bad colour negatives are after 30 years or so. The colours are all over the place and the different layers decay at different rates, so correction is not simple. Scanning and Photoshop gives reasonably good resulte, but after 40 years who knows if even that will be possible...
Posted by johnriley on 06/01/2008 - 21:55
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How many of us actually look at our slides and negatives? Well one of my NYRs is to finally get my "find out what the heck I have in all those negative albums" project off the ground. So I've been saving again, and I have a reasonable proportion of the price of a Nikon Coolscan V ED. ...
Posted by ChrisA on 06/01/2008 - 22:44
Hard Drive Back-Up
I was wondering what backup software people used and what the inpact on PC performance was? Good backup software is key I think. I use and extranal Harddrive and double layer DVDs. I also partition my main drive to ensure that I can reformat the Cdrive if required without loosing other data.
Posted by beakynet on 08/01/2008 - 15:31
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I was wondering what backup software people used and what the inpact on PC performance was? Good backup software is key I think. I use and extranal Harddrive and double layer DVDs. I also partition my main drive to ensure that I can reformat the Cdrive if required without loosing other data. Pa...
Posted by AlfaFoxtrot on 08/01/2008 - 16:03
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I use Acronis True Image. It's simple and reliable, in my experience so far. You have the choice of running it with high or low priority, and various compression options - to maximise speed or minimise affect on PC performance. I also use a DOS batch program I wrote myself to simply copy change...
Posted by iceblinker on 08/01/2008 - 16:04
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Different partitions is good, different drives is better and faster, especially so if they are on different controllers. Even then, if the drive electronics fails on either one, you'll probably lose everything that's on that drive. External drives are sooooo cheap, why not use one to keep a copy of...
Posted by Mannesty on 08/01/2008 - 17:49
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Different partitions is good, different drives is better and faster The more drives the more heat generated so you need to ensure that there is more efficient cooling in your system. Most PCs come with reasonably basic cooling - servers on the other hand are designed for RAID5 and have fully steapa...
Posted by beakynet on 09/01/2008 - 12:21
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The more drives the more heat generated so you need to ensure that there is more efficient cooling in your system. Using external USB/Firewire drives increases heat by a negligable (if any) amount. One rule of thumb I have is to replace my hard drive about every three years, even if I don't need th...
Posted by Mannesty on 09/01/2008 - 13:24
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On a recent holiday to Brazil we met a proffesional photographer ( lecturer ) who always carried a portable storage device when on a shoot. He said Vosonic, Jobi or Epson were good brands to look at. Has anyone any experience of such a device ? :?:
Posted by peter whipp on 12/01/2008 - 18:02
Hard Drive Back-Up
I use a Jobo (not Jobi) Giga One 40Gb device. It can't be used for photo viewing, but it's handy to have a second copy of images until I can get back to my PC. I have enough memory cards for my purposes and I rarely use them all on any particular project or trip. Battery drain might be an issue t...
Posted by Mannesty on 12/01/2008 - 18:23
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having recently suffered a hard disc drive death on my PC - with a fair few photos held on it (I used to produce a back up disc monthly - but this was part way through the month) I bought a Maxtor 750g ext hard drive from PC World for £90 saves your sanity - honestly it does. I now keep min...
Posted by Bill_And on 15/01/2008 - 21:43
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I now keep minimal info/pics/music etc on my PC - its all on the ext hard drive But what happens if the external hard drive fails?
Posted by johnriley on 15/01/2008 - 21:52
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let's see... one aperture library on your hd. one aperture vault on an external drive. one copy of your complete system, (including your aperture library) in time capsule... that's triple redundancy with no effort, set it and forget it.
Posted by Don on 15/01/2008 - 22:06
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I now keep minimal info/pics/music etc on my PC - its all on the ext hard drive And when (not if) that drive fails or is stolen, what then ?
Posted by Mannesty on 15/01/2008 - 22:50
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let's see... one aperture library on your hd. one aperture vault on an external drive. one copy of your complete system, (including your aperture library) in time capsule... that's triple redundancy with no effort, set it and forget it. Been waitin' for the keynote too eh...?!!
Posted by Unlocker on 15/01/2008 - 23:18
