Comments on: Hot Donkey, One Terabyte Hard Disks Within Six Months http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jacob Hantla http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10476 Jacob Hantla Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:38:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10476 Flickr now offers unlimited uploads for the $2/mo fee. I use it to store all of my photos that I figure are worth storing. <br /><br />Flickr is very free with its bandwidth and its API makes great addon programs possible. <br /><br />The coolest for what you guys are talking about here is Flickr Backup. With Flickr Uploadr, it just a drag and drop process to upload your photos. With Flickr Backup (http://sourceforge.net/projects/flickrbackup) your computer will automatically download all of your uploaded pics. So basically flickr isn't only a photosharing community, but it is a really large cheap hard drive that you can backup all of your photos to. Flickr now offers unlimited uploads for the $2/mo fee. I use it to store all of my photos that I figure are worth storing.

Flickr is very free with its bandwidth and its API makes great addon programs possible.

The coolest for what you guys are talking about here is Flickr Backup. With Flickr Uploadr, it just a drag and drop process to upload your photos. With Flickr Backup (http://sourceforge.net/projects/flickrbackup) your computer will automatically download all of your uploaded pics. So basically flickr isn’t only a photosharing community, but it is a really large cheap hard drive that you can backup all of your photos to.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10477 Anonymous Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10477 Count me in for wanting to hear more about your backup process. My photo library is growing (and your photowalking convinced me to start playing with RAW). <br /><br />Jake<br />communityguy.com Count me in for wanting to hear more about your backup process. My photo library is growing (and your photowalking convinced me to start playing with RAW).

Jake
communityguy.com

]]> By: Duncan http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10478 Duncan Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10478 Have you tried <a href="http://www.panterasoft.com/" rel="nofollow" title="Link to the Panterasoft website where you can download HDD Health from">HDD Health</a>? Its a free program which monitors the hard drives <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring%2C_Analysis%2C_and_Reporting_Technology" rel="nofollow" title="Link to Wikipedia article">S.M.A.R.T</a> information and offers a good prediction of time till drive failure. No replacement for good backups but very useful to keep an eye on none the less! Have you tried HDD Health? Its a free program which monitors the hard drives S.M.A.R.T information and offers a good prediction of time till drive failure. No replacement for good backups but very useful to keep an eye on none the less!

]]> By: Thomas http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10479 Thomas Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:49:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10479 Hi,<br /><br />I would also be interested in learning about your backup strategy. If you've already written about this, perhaps you could include a link in your comment or next post [i read you via google's rss reader].<br /><br />I basically burn DVD's of all my photos [currently about 60GB] and mail copies to New York, Brazil & France. Hi,

I would also be interested in learning about your backup strategy. If you’ve already written about this, perhaps you could include a link in your comment or next post [i read you via google's rss reader].

I basically burn DVD’s of all my photos [currently about 60GB] and mail copies to New York, Brazil & France.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10480 Anonymous Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:10:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10480 OMG!<br /><br />I want an hard drive like that, I have a 320 GB HD and it is too small for me... and seagate gives also 5 years compares to other HD companies like WD.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.fastdump.net" rel="nofollow">Free File Hosting</a> OMG!

I want an hard drive like that, I have a 320 GB HD and it is too small for me… and seagate gives also 5 years compares to other HD companies like WD.

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]]> By: Miguel http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10481 Miguel Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10481 Thomas, since you have such a large collection of images, I'm interested in learning your backup process. Thomas, since you have such a large collection of images, I’m interested in learning your backup process.

]]> By: Smiley http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10482 Smiley Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10482 I endorse Amazon's S3 service for offsite backup. It's the cheapest, ans so far, so good. While you're at CES, see if you can't find a new catchphrase.<br /><br />|-<:) I endorse Amazon’s S3 service for offsite backup. It’s the cheapest, ans so far, so good. While you’re at CES, see if you can’t find a new catchphrase.

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]]> By: -gary http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10483 -gary Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10483 Pair two of those with a <a href="http://infrant.com/products/products_details.php?name=ReadyNAS%20NV" rel="nofollow">Infrant ReadyNAS</a> that will allow you to upgrade to RAID 5 and additional capacity in the future without destroying segments and you're set. Minus, of course, off-site.<br /><br />For those that need off-site storage and have more modest needs, look at <a href="http://carbonite.com" rel="nofollow">Carbonite</a>. Pair two of those with a Infrant ReadyNAS that will allow you to upgrade to RAID 5 and additional capacity in the future without destroying segments and you’re set. Minus, of course, off-site.

For those that need off-site storage and have more modest needs, look at Carbonite.

]]> By: Ian Robins http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10484 Ian Robins Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10484 I have two external hard drives (WD) that I back my photos up to as well as flickr and zooomer. I also do a DVD back-up, but not as often as I probably should.<br /><br />I too have a Lacie external drive. It worked fine at first but now (about 2 years later) it is struggling and I will replace before it's too late. I have two external hard drives (WD) that I back my photos up to as well as flickr and zooomer. I also do a DVD back-up, but not as often as I probably should.

I too have a Lacie external drive. It worked fine at first but now (about 2 years later) it is struggling and I will replace before it’s too late.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/hot-donkey-one-terabyte-hard-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-10485 Anonymous Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1495#comment-10485 Hi Thomas! Do you consider services like Flickr, Zooomr, Smugmug etc as a backup storage? I store my pics on one internal hard disk, one external hard disk, dvd's and Flickr. And I like to think about Flickr as the "worst-case" recovery scenario. I know downloading the almost 10.000 photo's I've uploaded would take weeks, but it's possible!<br /><br />Regards,<br />Jan<br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/neleenjan/ Hi Thomas! Do you consider services like Flickr, Zooomr, Smugmug etc as a backup storage? I store my pics on one internal hard disk, one external hard disk, dvd’s and Flickr. And I like to think about Flickr as the “worst-case” recovery scenario. I know downloading the almost 10.000 photo’s I’ve uploaded would take weeks, but it’s possible!

Regards,
Jan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neleenjan/

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