I've seen at least one person ask about storage. I do all my on a pretty high end Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. It's basically a big multi disk hard drive that stores all my pictures and works even if a drive completely crashes.
Here's a link to an introduction to this technology in case you're interested.
Of course if this is too messy/geeky, you can always opt for online storage. However, you'll have longer transfer times as you try to transfer 300 Mb photo files between the Internet and your computer.
Here are some services for online storage:
www.mozy.com
www.sugarsync.com
www.box.net
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Thanks for this info, Logan. wow, you really do a very serious job of backing up. Me, I use a more everday external hard drive, and then burn dvds as a second backup. I don't know if that is nearly as sound. But most of my original "files" are still negatives -- what I mean is I don't shoot much digital to worry as much as I worry about the house burning down and all my negatives getting ruined.
ReplyDeleteI'll be sure to put this topic on the agenda for our technical discussions in class -- I for one would like to find out more about the options -- and hear what others of you are doing.
Logan and all, the link to that NAS drive above wasn't working, or, actually, it was sending you to a different place, but I just corrected it to where I think you wanted people to go, so hopefully folks will take a look again. thanks again for posting this.
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ReplyDeleteI have to throw a shout out to Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) as another option for online, realtime backups of your files. It will also sync files between multiple computers. AND allow for each public sharing of your big files, if you want to do that.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite Dropbox features is that it actually stores the complete history of files, which they call the Pat Rack feature. So if you realize you screwed up a file, you can go online, see the full history of revisions, and get any version back onto your machine. Dropbox has saved my butt more than a few times over the past year. I have no association with Dropbox, but love it so much I tell everyone they need it if they have important files they don't want to lose.
Also, I want to mention the Drobo and Drobo Pro, which are basically big, multi-drive NAS boxes like Logan was talking about. They are much more user friendly than a typical NAS device, but will lack some of the power user features that a full blown NAS or RAID will give you. But, if you don't know what NAS or RAID is, Drobo is probably a good fit for you.
www.dropbox.com
www.drobo.com
thanks erik. great info!
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