When we last looked at the Drobos, one of them was causing the OS to insert disk errors in the error log. I had also noticed that VVEngine couldn’t complete one large file transfer. It turned out that the two events occurred simultaneously, suggesting a common cause. I used Windows Explorer to transfer a much… [Read More]
Life with Drobo
Anybody remember Jerry Pournelle’s column in Byte Magazine? In the spirit of that long-running account of Jerry’s struggles with technology, here’s a blow-by-blow of my experiences with the Drobo boxes. You are welcome to enjoy a bit of schadenfreude. Conclusions in the next post. I ordered the first box from Amazon. It arrived in two… [Read More]
New off-site backup options
Only eighteen months have passed since I wrote the paper on backing up photographic images, but there have been some changes that affect the off-site component of the backup strategy that I proposed in that paper. The biggest difference is the price reduction of one terabyte disks. It’s now hovering close to a hundred bucks… [Read More]
Paper Selection
Maybe you’re getting tired of reading about blind spots. I know I’m getting a little tired of writing about them. I promised to give it a rest, but first I’ve got a few things to say about one of the most frustrating things in modern digital photography: paper selection. I’ll go through it without the… [Read More]
From Tortoise to Hare
Over the last year, you may have noticed the performance of this blog diminishing: pages taking longer to load, timeouts, and the navigation tools not loading properly. If you’re a diligent reader, at the end of December you saw a complete outage for about a day. Since then, performance has increased markedly. Pages load crisply,… [Read More]
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