You are exactly right! Nope, original drives, Hitachi drives.That array has only been shut down for brief periods, power failure, re-boot for firmware update, other than that it has spun 24/7. Every upgrade I notice that the drives run quieter and cooler, these new Thunderbay 8 Arrays are barely above room temp, with eight 16TB drives running. A month or so ago I had a series of drives fail in one Thunderbay 4 array, completely my fault. I noticed that one array was really running hot but brushed it aside and went on, until I started to get drive failure notification. When I began to trouble shoot it I realized the fan was inop..........how dumb. I ordered a $12.00 fan, replaced it and a couple of drives and it's humming away. That array had to be running red hot for six months before the drives began failing................so dumb.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks Nick! Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it to protect years of client files, very few photographers do it and it really is a significant expense. I know that most clients will lose the images I took for them at some point and I'll get a call hoping that I have a back up and I always do. I did a quick calculation yesterday, it runs about $37.00 per TB to store my files these days and I have 2 Petabytes of storage...................Yikes, better not do that math.........................
The update I did yesterday was replacing a perfectly functioning Drobo 5D, but drive reliability gets better every year and it is at an all time high at this point, so it makes sense to phase out arrays that are getting long in the tooth. The Drobo is 12 years old, runs 24/7, I guess it doesn't owe me much at this point. ...Show more →
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Had a drone mission this afternoon and stopped by our neighborhood pond on the way home.................
That's a beautiful wood duck, Jim! Since real aviation subjects have been hard to come by, may as well post something that fly. A couple shots from this morning.
Sitting in one of the best Texas BBQ spots in The Lone Star, going over a two week solid shooting schedule trying to figure out how I'm going to get it all done.......................Gosh I love it, reminds me of "normal"..........................I think I'm going to start a go fund me for a wall around this great State!
Working on three model homes in a new community, just put the finishing touches on this Master Suite perspective. Ummm, I'm sure they'll be "cancelling" that phrase soon, but for now I'll go with it..................
A short drone clip of the new Collin College Technical Campus. I tried to fly a cool sequence through the two level skybridge but the I2 did not like all the steel and wiring, it began to go really wonky and wouldn't respond to my inputs. Fortunately I was able to get close to it and get the gear down and land it, thought it was toast for about 30 seconds.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Up and running, yet another 128TB array. This should hold me for a little while........................... I reaend today that Google and others hook people into using cloud storage with free deals, then after 30 days the fees begin, and they don't talk about it but they charge substantial fees for every TB that is retrieved. I do the math about once a year and it always comes out that my way is the most economical by far............and it isn't "economical" in the least.
Jim, I am a technologist for a "major" computer company, and could not agree with you more in both principal and in practice. I have a very similar setup, although not quite the TB count that you have!! I have duplicated my setup at my sons house, and do an incremental backup to that site (50 miles away) via a VPN connection every night. What, if any, off-site backup methodology do you use?
Well this is probably going to disappoint you , but my remote back up plan is a bit antiquated. I take a portable drive to my office at the hangar every couple of days and update the arrays there and then I load the new files to a set of drives that I have in a third location in padded envelopes. The padded envelope system is about to go away and will be replaced by an OWC Thunderbay 8 RAID Array. The third array won't typically be powered or accessible except when I am updating it.
Well this is probably going to disappoint you , but my remote back up plan is a bit antiquated. I take a portable drive to my office at the hangar every couple of days and update the arrays there and then I load the new files to a set of drives that I have in a third location in padded envelopes. The padded envelope system is about to go away and will be replaced by an OWC Thunderbay 8 RAID Array. The third array won't typically be powered or accessible except when I am updating it.
It wouldn't work for you, but all of my data gets synchronized up to Amazon S3. I have my data on my Mac Pro which is sync'd to a locally attached but usually powered off RAID array and to a QNAP local SAN using rsync. The QNAP SAN runs processes which then sync the data to AWS. So I have four copies. Yes, I'm paranoid, but even paranoids have enemies . I've been doing computer services since 1969, so I know how wonderfully computers can screw up.
Well this is probably going to disappoint you , but my remote back up plan is a bit antiquated. I take a portable drive to my office at the hangar every couple of days and update the arrays there and then I load the new files to a set of drives that I have in a third location in padded envelopes. The padded envelope system is about to go away and will be replaced by an OWC Thunderbay 8 RAID Array. The third array won't typically be powered or accessible except when I am updating it.
Jim, I am away from home this week, but when I return home this weekend I will post up a diagram of my solution with both the hardware and software components.
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