Looks like it's going to be cloudy and rainy here in The Lone Star for at least the next ten days, maybe a one day reprieve with partly cloudy in a week or so. That forecast gives me some time to catch up on clerical stuff and do a little marketing, but it sure doesn't help much with the couple dozen multi day assignments in my backlog, and with Fall screaming up at us there is a hard deadline for much of this as the leaves drop and the grass goes dormant. Oh well, I should be getting used to this because the past 41 years have been no different.
Something that I read this morning might be of interest to a lot of us here. I subscribe to a group called "Backblaze", they are a huge cloud based data storage company and provide very detailed stats on hard drive reliability. Today's newsletter was very interesting in that they talk about how they migrate out of different capacity drives and why. I'll post their reliability stats so you can see what drives are the most bulletproof. Spoiler alert, looks like the HGST12TB is a winner in the reliability category. Based upon their findings some months ago I am migrating to that drive as standard in all of my arrays. The 12TB is still a bit pricey, but when looked at through the prism of possible data loss, one just has to grit their teeth and update. Another interesting forecast from these folks is that hard drives will remain the major back up tool for the foreseeable future and several major manufacturers are saying that they'll be producing 40TB internal units within the next 48 months. Those will, of course, be insanely expensive for a while, but one has to believe that 12, 14, 16 and up drives will become more and more economical. SSD's are inching down, but are still in the ionosphere when you look at capacities that represent any sizable back up options, so spinning platters are going to be with us for quite a while.
I'm going to load five new 12TB HGST Gold Drives into the new OWC Thunderbay 5 enclosure that arrived last week and begin phasing out my older Drobo units. My total storage, including the new OWC unit is topping 1.2 Petabytes, a library that requires a considerable amount to attention to keep it organizationally fit....Show more →
Any chanche of a photo from that 1.2 ptb set up
Made it to Houston again they did gave a hard time about the priority acces was done with it and booked first class for the first part of the trip the second part was a bit expensive to do first class 😉 going on the second leg in a couple of hours Texas I say goodbye untill we meet again ...
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The Fort Worth Alliance Air Show is always a marathon for me. Those of you who have attended are familiar with the number of directions I am pulled from Wednesday of show week until the final act on Sunday. Genrally the day begins at 5:30 and ends the following morning at 2 or 3 as the final images are downloaded and backed up. Social Media needs have added additional urgency to everyone's work flo in order to provide imagery to the team and gin up excitement during the event. This year we didn't end up having any air to air missions which, while a bit disappointing, took one area of stress from my schedule. The Spirit of Alliance flew three missions, two of those had my 360 cameras strategically mounted and rendered some amazing perspectives. I'll be post processing that footage sometime this week and I believe that you will enjoy the ride.
If I remember correctly, Hitachi bought out the IBM drives (HGST), Deskstar, which used to go by the nickname Deathstar. Good to see that reliability went up
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Good Morning Everyone,
Looks like it's going to be cloudy and rainy here in The Lone Star for at least the next ten days, maybe a one day reprieve with partly cloudy in a week or so. That forecast gives me some time to catch up on clerical stuff and do a little marketing, but it sure doesn't help much with the couple dozen multi day assignments in my backlog, and with Fall screaming up at us there is a hard deadline for much of this as the leaves drop and the grass goes dormant. Oh well, I should be getting used to this because the past 41 years have been no different.
Something that I read this morning might be of interest to a lot of us here. I subscribe to a group called "Backblaze", they are a huge cloud based data storage company and provide very detailed stats on hard drive reliability. Today's newsletter was very interesting in that they talk about how they migrate out of different capacity drives and why. I'll post their reliability stats so you can see what drives are the most bulletproof. Spoiler alert, looks like the HGST12TB is a winner in the reliability category. Based upon their findings some months ago I am migrating to that drive as standard in all of my arrays. The 12TB is still a bit pricey, but when looked at through the prism of possible data loss, one just has to grit their teeth and update. Another interesting forecast from these folks is that hard drives will remain the major back up tool for the foreseeable future and several major manufacturers are saying that they'll be producing 40TB internal units within the next 48 months. Those will, of course, be insanely expensive for a while, but one has to believe that 12, 14, 16 and up drives will become more and more economical. SSD's are inching down, but are still in the ionosphere when you look at capacities that represent any sizable back up options, so spinning platters are going to be with us for quite a while.
I'm going to load five new 12TB HGST Gold Drives into the new OWC Thunderbay 5 enclosure that arrived last week and begin phasing out my older Drobo units. My total storage, including the new OWC unit is topping 1.2 Petabytes, a library that requires a considerable amount to attention to keep it organizationally fit....Show more →
Boots on the ground at 0830 local this morning we flew like a jet fighter had the jet stream helping us a bit sometimes did 700mph
one of the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 112 (VMFA-112) F18 from the JRB in take off after a gas and go at media day shot from the entrance of the FBO
Snowbirds arrival and media with our temp HQ in the back
Looks like it's going to be cloudy and rainy here in The Lone Star for at least the next ten days, maybe a one day reprieve with partly cloudy in a week or so. That forecast gives me some time to catch up on clerical stuff and do a little marketing, but it sure doesn't help much with the couple dozen multi day assignments in my backlog, and with Fall screaming up at us there is a hard deadline for much of this as the leaves drop and the grass goes dormant. Oh well, I should be getting used to this because the past 41 years have been no different.
Something that I read this morning might be of interest to a lot of us here. I subscribe to a group called "Backblaze", they are a huge cloud based data storage company and provide very detailed stats on hard drive reliability. Today's newsletter was very interesting in that they talk about how they migrate out of different capacity drives and why. I'll post their reliability stats so you can see what drives are the most bulletproof. Spoiler alert, looks like the HGST12TB is a winner in the reliability category. Based upon their findings some months ago I am migrating to that drive as standard in all of my arrays. The 12TB is still a bit pricey, but when looked at through the prism of possible data loss, one just has to grit their teeth and update. Another interesting forecast from these folks is that hard drives will remain the major back up tool for the foreseeable future and several major manufacturers are saying that they'll be producing 40TB internal units within the next 48 months. Those will, of course, be insanely expensive for a while, but one has to believe that 12, 14, 16 and up drives will become more and more economical. SSD's are inching down, but are still in the ionosphere when you look at capacities that represent any sizable back up options, so spinning platters are going to be with us for quite a while.
I'm going to load five new 12TB HGST Gold Drives into the new OWC Thunderbay 5 enclosure that arrived last week and begin phasing out my older Drobo units. My total storage, including the new OWC unit is topping 1.2 Petabytes, a library that requires a considerable amount to attention to keep it organizationally fit....Show more →
Ack! I went to that Backblaze site to find the WD Black 6TB HDs I'm using in my Drobo, and they have the highest failure rate of that list! I'm running it in 2 drive fail mode of the 5, so I should be OK, but now I'm wondering how long to wait until I start swapping drives for something else or if I should just have an extra on hand just in case. Swapping all 5 drives is not a cheap endeavor.
I hear Ya Erich, I have 23 drives that I am currently swapping out for the HGST 12TB Enterprise units, sheesh! Spending money on this stuff is like replacing a washer, it's just not that much fun. I'm so paranoid that I have four complete sets of all my images and I have them in three separate locations. Maybe, with the failure rate so low on these new drives, I can pare that down a bit.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
If I remember correctly, Hitachi bought out the IBM drives (HGST), Deskstar, which used to go by the nickname Deathstar. Good to see that reliability went up
Hi Laura,
Yes, it appears that they have cleaned up their act considerably. I have a bunch of HGST 10TB drives that are humming along without a hiccup.
If anyone is looking for some long airshow glass, I have my Nikon 200-400mm f/4 lens for sale. I know a lot of you can hold hold some really big glass, like Jan-Arie just showed, but not me. The few times I took it to the airport I had to use a monopod, which was less than ideal. I'm going to the new Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF lens.
The two times I rented it, I was able to handhold it for each pass. Good luck with your sale. (I'm just drooling in the corner )
ELinder wrote:
If anyone is looking for some long airshow glass, I have my Nikon 200-400mm f/4 lens for sale. I know a lot of you can hold hold some really big glass, like Jan-Arie just showed, but not me. The few times I took it to the airport I had to use a monopod, which was less than ideal. I'm going to the new Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF lens.
Funny you mention that Erich, I've been mulling over selling my 800mm. The lens is incredible, but as everyone knows, it's never been on a tripod and I have this knot that shows up in the lower left of my back every time I raise it to the sky.
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