All Hard Drives will ultimately fail. To prevent valuable loss of your
precious photos please go for a "Hot Swappable Enclosure" running a
"Raid Array". What this means simply is:-
a) You buy an enclosure i) with WiFi connectivity which allows you to
save your files/photos over your Home Network w/
I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard
drives. They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are
there any particular brands to look for or avoid?
I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, to replace a couple of
3TB drives currently i
I've had plenty of problems with RAID 5 arrays, RAID 0 not so much but
that's an expensive way to go.
On 27 October 2014 15:24, Bipin Gupta wrote:
> All Hard Drives will ultimately fail. To prevent valuable loss of your
> precious photos please go for a "Hot Swappable Enclosure" running a
> "Raid
On 27/10/2014 2:12 AM, Rob Studdert wrote:
I've had plenty of problems with RAID 5 arrays, RAID 0 not so much but
that's an expensive way to go.
My Drobo has been a good friend for some 7 years now. I might upgrade it
to get a faster one at some point, I have the original USB2 version,
which
> On Oct 27, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
>
> a) You buy an enclosure i) with WiFi connectivity which allows you to
> save your files/photos over your Home Network w/o any wires; or ii)
> with the old fashioned manual USB 3.0 connectivity - not very
> convenient as you need wires.
Do y
Eric,
As I wrote in response to the original message/thread from Mark C.,
I see great responses about Synology products.
It looks like some of them have a built-in Wi-fi capabilities
e.g. this one:
https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS213air
And others - can use Wi-Fi "dongles" from a
Just to follow up on this - I bought two Seagate 4TB drives yesterday
and am in the process of transferring files. I am going to drop down to
just two 8 copies of the archive, each capable of holding 8 TB. Since I
presently have only about 4.8 TB that leaves plenty of room for
expansion. I may
I'm trying out an experiment at the moment with OneDrive, after mentioning it
in a previous reply.
You can keep your LR library on the local drive and put a symbolic link to it
in the OneDrive folder, and OneDrive synchronises it online. The advantage of
keeping the working library on the hard
LOL - I meant to say I am going down to just 2 copies of the archive! Not 8!
On 10/28/2014 5:10 PM, Mark C wrote:
Just to follow up on this - I bought two Seagate 4TB drives yesterday
and am in the process of transferring files. I am going to drop down
to just two 8 copies of the archive, each
Mark,
Just in case, - since you mentioned you were considering a USB 3.0 card, -
Two years ago, I bought this card:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/696114-REG/Transcend_TS_PDU3_2_Port_USB_3_0_PCI.html
I put it into my desktop that was put into "production" back in January of
2007.
I am
Thanks, Igor - I looked into adding a USB 3 card and found that the only
available slots on my PC are PCIe x1 - which I think is too slow to
support USB 3.0. Maybe I don't understand the specifications correctly -
I think PCIe 2.0 is needed.
Mark
On 10/28/2014 10:38 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Mark,
First of all, - just in case: there might be a confusion between the width
of the bus in number of lanes (PCIe x1, x4, x16...) and the version of the
PCIe (1.0a, 1.1, 2.0,..)
See, e.g. this Wikipedia article that summarizes it nicely:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
So, the T
Thanks, Igor - I guess I misunderstood what I read about PCIe x1. I had
the impression that adding a USB 3 card would be futile. I'll give the
add on card a try - some of the 2TB drives I will be using in the send
copy of the backup at USB 2 so they won't benefit from the speed up, but
the newe
Here is a simple no fuss solution for those of us not requiring RAID
(which uses 2 identical hard drives). And this one costs a paltry $19
at Amazon:-
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDLCTQO
This docking station claims to work with 2 TB and larger SATA drives
in both the 2.5 & 3.5 inch sizes. It is ho
on 2014-10-27 11:33 Eric Weir wrote
Do you know of any enclosures or drives—preferably with swappable drives—with
wifi connectivity?
any NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit is wifi accessible if you connect it
by Ethernet to a wifi router; however wifi is usually much slower than
Ethernet o
on 2014-10-26 22:24 Bipin Gupta wrote
b) You buy one pair of exactly the same hard drive - some enclosures
allow you two pairs of hard drives increasing your storage capacity.
So a pair of 4 TB hard drives will give you 4 TB storage space - NOT 8
TB - as the Raid array duplicates data on to the o
FWIW - I upgraded my home wi-fi router a couple years ago and the
Netgear model I purchased has a built in USB port and a simplified
sharing mode. Any USB drive could plug in to the router and connect to
the network. I used it briefly when we were living in temporary
quarters and I did not hav
I have a 4 year old Hitachi LifeStudio, still working fine with no
issues. AFAIK they were bought out by Western Digital.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Mark C wrote:
> I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
> They are filling up and its getting
with no
> issues. AFAIK they were bought out by Western Digital.
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Mark C wrote:
>> I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
>> They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any
>>
Oct 24, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Mark C wrote:
>
> I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
> They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any
> particular brands to look for or avoid?
>
> I am thinking of getting a c
i have been using seagate for my back ups, so far so good
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Mark C wrote:
> I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
> They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any
> particular brands
>>
>> I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
>> They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any
>> particular brands to look for or avoid?
>>
>> I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, t
th,
>> reasonably priced, and very reliable.
>>
>> http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
>>
>> Godfrey
>>
>>> On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Mark C wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm currently housin
ently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard
drives. They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are
there any particular brands to look for or avoid?
I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, to replace a couple of
3TB drives currently in use. I'm currently
I just saw an excerpt from a conversation:
xxx: We had a new SysAdmin starting his work today. The very first thing
he did was to backup all the backups. And only then he came to meet us.
yyy: Yeah.. He must've had a hard life.
Larry Colen Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:13:12 -0700 wrote:
However you
e fast, easy to work with,
reasonably priced, and very reliable.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
Godfrey
On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Mark C wrote:
I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
They are filling up and i
rrently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
>> They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any
>> particular brands to look for or avoid?
>>
>> I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, to replace a couple of 3TB
>
t 8:39 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
>
>> i have been using seagate for my back ups, so far so good
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Mark C wrote:
>>> I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
>>> They are filling up
AM, Mark C wrote:
I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any
particular brands to look for or avoid?
I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, to replace a couple of 3TB
24, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Mark C wrote:
I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives.
They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any
particular brands to look for or avoid?
I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, to replace a c
housing my digital images on a couple of external hard
drives. They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are
there any particular brands to look for or avoid?
I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, to replace a couple of
3TB drives currently in use. I'm currently using two
op/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
Godfrey
On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Mark C wrote:
I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard
drives.
They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there
any
particular brands to look for or
Mark,
That docking station solution is for the case when you are have just
bare internal drives and have a bunch of them.
There is no reason to take the drives for that out of their existing USB
enclosures (assuming those are perfectly functional and have the optimum
connectivity).
Igor
M
Igor - I should clarify: I was looking at a 2 drive station and thought
I could put a 4 and a 3 TB drive in it instead of having the 2 drives in
enclosures. So I was considering buying 2 4 TB drives and extracting the
3 TB drives from their enclosures to create this system. The advantages
might
I have a number of La Cie drives and so far have not had a problem.
Philip Northeast
www.aviewfinderdarkly.com.au
On 25/10/2014 1:49 am, Mark C wrote:
I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard
drives. They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade
Mark,
Aah, sorry, I hadn't gotten that part.
Thanks for clarifying that.
I don't know what your requirements, but you might consider
you might consider a NAS (network-attached storage) solution.
From a good friend of my, who is a sysadmin and has used Synology a lot, I
hear good recommendatio
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