15 Sep
2015
15 Sep
'15
1:02 p.m.
On 09/15/2015 12:32 PM, ethan at 757.org wrote:
I tend to think of pictures and movies as sui generis--they were
perfectly well done in non-digital form, so I don't include them as
"data" needing backup, but rather a special case of digital data
masquerading as a simulacrum of analog information.
Anyone remember the IBM "Photostore" setup at Lawrence Livermore?
Enterprising programmers wrote tools to go through their files and
"touch" them, lest they be "Photostored". In many cases, that meant
"gone forever".
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In the case of spinning rust, what brand is most reliable? I've seen
dreadful reports of DOA drives from Western Digital, fewer from Seagate,
but I don't know about Hitachi, Samsung, etc.
Up until now, I've confined my purchasing to 500GB drives on the hope
that they're more reliable than the 3-5TB monsters. Is this a mistake?
FWIW, my SA-4004 still works...
--Chuck
Pictures and
movies can be original work - perhaps not for you,
certainly mostly not for me (I have a few original pictures, but
only a few), but I know graphic designers and photographers who
have probably produced at least a gigabyte of original pictures
each by now. And people into video production....
I have a HD video production rig that goes out to some geek events
and I've used it in the past at stuff. The data generated is around
5GB per hour (H264 1080i)