Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They all use the same contract manufacturers in China, so I very much doubt that there are systematic differences between brands. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA > On 28 Sep 2015, at 07:25, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > wrote: > > My point is simply that there is "fool-proof" brands any more. Some dates, > Seagte is better, others, it may be Hitachi... and so it goes. > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> People on these LUG backup conversations seldom mention the idea that as >> long as your backups are not too far apart if one of them turns out to be >> corrupted you've still got the one before that so its not like you've lost >> everything. You've only lost your more current stuff. And if you've >> double >> backed up then you've not even lost that. >> I'm just saying the world doesn't end if every drive you've ever backed up >> to does not last forever. As you know that's not going to happen anyway >> and >> it doesn't have to. >> >> >> On 9/27/15 4:52 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge683 at fastmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I agree with Frank. Backups require a variety of solutions. Having a >> ?direct >>> connect? hard drive is a fundamental part of that solution. Having an >> off-site >>> backup is another. There are a variety of solutions for this as well. >> I?ve >>> been using arq software to backup my images to Amazon?s ?Glacier? storage >>> although I could have used any of the Amazon S3 storage tiers as well. >> Depends >>> on how quickly you want to be able to restore. Since I?m unlikely to >> need to >>> download on a moment by moment basis Glacier, which uses off-line >> storage, is >>> a reasonable bet. It seems reasonably affordable. Amazon knows a lot >> about >>> secure storage solutions and they won?t use my images to sell me ads or >> market >>> me. >> >> Virtually all my images live on a large Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt 2 >>> external RAID. I back that up to a Drobo. This doesn?t entirely solve the >>> image integrity issue, however. I?d like to have a check-sum to verify >> each >>> image against and a more rigorous file system than Mac OS X currently >>> employes. I?m hoping that in the future Apple will create a file system >> built >>> around data integrity like ZFS. But this seems unlikely to me as Apple >> focuses >>> more and more on iOS products. I suppose I could build a Linux box with >> ZFS >>> but I?m beyond the place where that seems interesting to me and it >> doesn?t >>> solve the problem on the Mac. And I don?t do Windows. >> >> If we?re going to keep >>> terabytes of data around we have to care about keeping it reliable. It?s >> just >>> a different part of the game. I wish the hardware and OS guys would >> really >>> focus on this but as a selling point to consumers it isn?t important. >> >> Adam >> >>> >>> On Sep 27, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Frys Electronics has a Western Digital 5TB external USB3.0 drive on sale >>> for $120. This is a massive amount of storage (in Leica M240 terms, about >>> 200,000 raw images). If you are looking for a backup HDD, this is a cost >>> effective solution. >>> >>> Please, no outbursts of WD is no good, brand Z is >>> better. Or some techie version of why you should only use NAS drives. >> This >>> is a simple, cost effective, low tech way to backup your >>> computer. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users >>> Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photographer >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information