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Comment by Mannesty posted on Please back up your photos. at 29/12/2010 - 23:15
Am I really the only one that makes use of one of the best backup system there is?
My own system consists of 3 desktop PC's, 2 laptops and a netbook. None of these is used to store any of my valuable data.
My data is stored on a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ box using 3 X 1TB HDD's and XRAID (auto-expanding RAID 5) which is powered on 24x7. This gives my just under 2TB of usable storage space. Backup jobs run automatically overnight to backup my data to external 1TB HDD's.
All this data is accessible by all of my machines and I have access to it over the 'net if I wish.
In addition, I selectively backup data to other smaller HDD's of mostly 160/200/250GB capacity.
My 'belt 'n braces' backup is done to tape.
The NAS box has suffered two catastrophic disk failures in the 2 years I've had it, both were replaced under warranty. No data was lost and the system continued to function whilst I waited for the replacement drive each time.
Comment by Mannesty posted on Please back up your photos. at 29/12/2010 - 23:04
Comment by Mannesty posted on Best DSLR of 2010 at 28/12/2010 - 08:08
PM sent re: SMC Pentax-F Zoom 1:3.5-4.5 35-70mm Macro
Comment by Mannesty posted on SLR Kit to a good home at 20/12/2010 - 08:51
... leave photocopies of your butt on the copy machine at the office party, ...
Comment by Mannesty posted on Greatest Feature of a Pentax DSLR at 19/12/2010 - 09:18
1: TAv mode
2: Dual customisable e-Dials
3: Compatibility with all previously manufactured Pentax lenses (some with minor restrictions).
4: DNG raw files
5: Pentax lenses (not a DSLR feature I know, but worth a mention)
Comment by Mannesty posted on Greatest Feature of a Pentax DSLR at 18/12/2010 - 00:30
Comment by Mannesty posted on Lightroom V3.2, PSE, PS9, SilkyPix or what else is the BEST with RAW+ Postproduction? at 16/12/2010 - 18:02
They will retain up to 80% charge if not used for 1 year and you should get a reasonable amount of use in camera.
Comment by Mannesty posted on K-x NiMH battery problem at 14/12/2010 - 17:53
Turned the whole house over last night looking for mine and cannot find the thing anywhere.
All I want from Santa this year is a bucketful of time to use the gear I have.
This retirement lark isn't all it's cracked up to be. As soon as I get one job finished, SWMBO gives me two more.
Comment by Mannesty posted on All I want for Christmas is......... at 14/12/2010 - 16:01
And yet another user takes their turn to resurrect these same old posts with a quick cut 'n paste of "Hi and welcome to the forum '.
Comment by Mannesty posted on Welcome messages - a suggestion at 12/12/2010 - 23:02
...trouble with RAID is that it just increases the chance of having discs fail, which are tedious and expensive to replace. RAID is not a backup system, it is for Resilience and speed. Resilience is not backup, it just means a system keeps on working whilst the failed part is replaced.
p.s.
the warranty on a hard disc is useless, you don't get the data back, you just get a new (blank) drive.
Unless a failed drive is buried deep inside a machine, they are not tedious to replace at all. As for being expensive to replace, I've never yet had to pay for a replacement HDD as all have failed within their 5 years warranty period and have been replaced FOC.
For that reason, the warranty is far from being useless.
The only gripe I have had recently is that a Seagate 1Tb drive failed in one of my systems and it was replaced with a 're-manufactured' drive, which failed within a few months. I no longer accept re-manufactured drives as replacement.