Western
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Ron, you sure got that right!! I have a 1 Terra byte just for my backups:laughing:
Walmart - End of an Era
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Ron, you sure got that right!! I have a 1 Terra byte just for my backups:laughing:
kensnelling
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You can save a tremendous amount of hard drive space saving pictures, documents, etc to cd and dvd's. I learned that years ago after a catastrophic computer failure (lightning strike) caused the loss of everything stored on the computer. Took weeks to get all the financial data restored, and most photos and documents were lost forever.
Ken
You got that right. Backup and backup the backup if it's real important.
CD's and DVD's are good too but.... they are claimed to fail after a long period of time and may not even be compatible with tomorrows data systems.
Nothing may be, so it becomes a matter of keeping up to date with the technology even for backups. Portable hard drives are much cheaper per gig these days than disks. I'm not saying you shouldn't have disks in a lock box for some items. Solid state main hard drives are on the rise and are suppossed to be much faster than rotary but I imagine that depends on the entire system. "The chain is only as strong as it's weakest link" applies here too, but in the vernacular of digital. They are not big enough capacity wise to be on my wanted list yet.
I chaired a group of ameuter genealogists for a number of years and almost everyone of them lost their data due to a crash at one time or another. I always stressed backup, because of the hundreds of hours of research that could be lost in a moment. Some took the warning and some didn't, like most computer users. It's not a matter of if you have a crash and lose data, it's a matter of how long will it be after the last backup.
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Bird
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CDs & DVDs are relatively cheap, so I make a backup with one or the other the first of each month. In between the first of the months, I use thumb drives. I don't have my software backed up, but I do have all my documents and photos.
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I read the tread only from the first few post. I was at Walmart in Winnipeg, Canada last evening and the greeter was still working. Sorry in advance if this is a redundent post.
dmccarty
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I shop at Newegg as well. Lately for the things I have been buying, Amazon has been a bit cheaper. Especially with the Amazon Prime free two day shipping.
Surprisingly, late last year, the cheapest price for a hard drive I needed was at Bestbuy and not Newegg or Amazon. Bestbuy usually has the worst prices for stuff I am buying but not that time. Go Figure. I did mess up though. :laughing: Nikon has released a new camera that is in short supply and great demand. Usually Newegg or Bestbuy would not carry this camera but danged if they did. Some people where able to get the camera from Bestbuy before it sold out. I checked Newegg and they had the camera on their website but not in stock.
It kinda works out for me since I have an order placed with a local camera store for the same price and they will take my current camera as a trade it. In this case it is better for me to buy local.
You really do have to shop around.
Later,
Dan
dmccarty
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The size of the photo files I have would rapidly fill up a DVD. The CF memory cards I am currently using for the camera are 8GB and when I get the new camera I will be going with 16GB or maybe 32GB cards. A DVD at 4GB is not much room for some cameras. The camera I have on order has images files of 75ish GB.(GB should be MB)
This is good and this is bad. Having said that I do have some photos backed up on DVDs. The best DVDs I could find longevity wise I could find. It takes A LOT of DVDs to backup our photos. I need to burn some more.....
We also backup photos on two external USB drives. In theory one of them I want to carry to work to lock up off site. I do that from time to time but not as often as I should. The drives also backup the entire hard drive as well as important files. The USB drives are much faster and easier to store. I have an internal drive in my system that is not being used since I migrated to a larger drive. At some point I will format the old drive and use it for more backup. You cannot have too much backup.
We use thumb drives to also backup the important files. However those drives are often at the house so if we lost the house we would loose the data.
I was looking at the cost of running a website and we could get a site with 10GB of data for $50ish a year. For $100ish a year there was quite a bit more space. This would not hold our photos but we could zip up our data, in a password protected file, and upload to the website for off site storage.....
This thread has wandered from Walmart greeters, to online ordering, which stores to use, cost of memory devices at stores, and now PC backup methods and devices. :thumbsup:
Later,
Dan
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The size of the photo files I have would rapidly fill up a DVD. The CF memory cards I am currently using for the camera are 8GB and when I get the new camera I will be going with 16GB or maybe 32GB cards. A DVD at 4GB is not much room for some cameras. The camera I have on order has images files of 75ish GB.
This thread has wandered from Walmart greeters, to online ordering, which stores to use, cost of memory devices at stores, and now PC backup methods and devices. :thumbsup:
75 GIG would be some real nice resolution particularly if it was a RAW format to start. Bad part would be the slow loading and processing in an image editor unless the entire computer system had a ton of high speed RAM
along with the rest of the components properly matched and tuned.
What are the pixel dimensions of your 75 Gig images?
Are you sure you didn't mean 75 MB per image?....
I think the wandering subject matter well fits the "related topics" category Bird has this under.:thumbsup:
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dmccarty
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I messed up. I looked at the 75 GB over and over and over. I knew it was wrong. Just could not figure out why.
An hour or so after posting the comment, the Mark I Brain said, "Hey Dufus, you said GB NOT MB!" I hoped to have edited the post before I was caught having a brain infarction. Not fast enough. :laughing:
It should have said 75 MB.
The sensor is a 36 MB sensor. MB MB MB MB For full frame, large image it is 7,360 x 4,912 pixels.I think the best discussion threads wander a bit. :thumbsup:
Later,
Dan
Western
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I shop at Newegg as well. Lately for the things I have been buying, Amazon has been a bit cheaper. Especially with the Amazon Prime free two day shipping.
Later,
Dan
Dan, last year after the floods and then the Earthquake, HD prices soared over 100%. I think then the retailers that had some inventory where able to beat most of the $$. Thankfully HD production is coming back on line and the HD prices are falling.
