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Sooo... coooold!

  • Feb. 13th, 2013 at 6:29 PM
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Brr my office is just nipply this evening! I don't suppose it helped that I skipped blow drying my hair after my shower today. On a warm day it feels nice to let my hair dry naturally, but once I get a chill, it's just hard to shake! 

My drive fiasco is nearing its inevitable (evita-evitable) conclusion. Thanks to my stocking up at NCIX.com, I now have double backups on 2TB drives of all my photos, videos, and site backups. I have removed the 500GB backup drives from circulation. I have sadly replaced the 1TB Black drives inside my case with shiny new 2TB Green drives. Why sadly? Because I found out after my purchase that the Western Digital Green series are a) unreliable b) problematic and c) shut down in mini cycles to save power, making them very slow and not good for large files. Since a, b and c all apply to me, I seem to have made the wrong decision. But I let it go too long, so I'm stuck with them. And here we sit, in the old Don jail...

What do you do with too-tiny drives? It galls me to call 500GB drives too tiny, and they still work great, being Blacks and all. I do have an HTPC for the TV, but it's low profile and can only take one drive, which is already a 500GB. Hm. Sell them I guess? After a full rewrite of blank data, of course :) Nobody has the FULL ElliNude.com collection except me! MUahahahaha!

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I_am_Cliff
Feb. 14th, 2013 02:50 am (UTC)
Drive me crazy :-P
I don't know if it's worth it, but you can get external cases to put those old drives in. Might be handy for moving big files between PCs. And I think I got almost all of your collection (minus whatever I lost in my disk crash). :-P
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elligirl
Feb. 14th, 2013 03:54 pm (UTC)
Re: Drive me crazy :-P
Yeah, I have three external boxes already. This is how I perform backups to move things to the safety deposit box. :) ESata is my friend :)
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kcram3500
Feb. 14th, 2013 05:16 am (UTC)
Bet you're not anywhere near as nipply as Kate Upton was in Antarctica for SI...

I love my SSDs, but I'm not writing or archiving anywhere near the amount of data you are, so I understand price is an issue (1TB SSDs run well into 4 figures in US$). Still, I burn a DVD backup every month without question - got burned once (in 2005)... and I intend to keep it only once.
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elligirl
Feb. 14th, 2013 03:55 pm (UTC)
My boot drive is an SSD and I love it that way. It's getting full though. As you say, the SSDs are much more expensive per gig and I'm finding my C drive filling up even though I don't keep anything in the default Windows libraries. Argh. It's also almost a first gen ssd, so it's nowhere near as cool as the new ones.

No way they could have got me in Antarctica, contract or no! brrrr!
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paradoxymoron
Feb. 14th, 2013 05:20 am (UTC)
Darik's Boot & Nuke? Might only work for internal drives, haven't used it in a few years...
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elligirl
Feb. 14th, 2013 03:56 pm (UTC)
I knew I could find you sexy nerdy types on my blog somehow :)
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shamanix
Feb. 15th, 2013 12:25 am (UTC)
Just remember... 640k of RAM... :)

It freaks me out when I think back to my childhood and the brand new computer my dad picked up was a 166MHz processor with 256MB of memory and a HUGE TWO GIGABYTE HARD DRIVE.

Also, my first CD-ROM drive was a kit that cost $500 CAD. It came with Return to Zork and some other crappy games that never got played.

Sounds like you just need to load up with a couple of high capacity Velociraptor drives. 10k RPM drives are great for huge files. Of course, they cost about double a standard drive, but hey. :)
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elligirl
Feb. 15th, 2013 12:32 am (UTC)
Yeah, I feel that pain. I would love raptor drives, but when a drive is only valid for maybe two years? That's hard to justify the extra price. My 1TB blacks are awesome and quick enough at 7200rpm.

Thinking about losing one drive to whatever now scares the dickens out of me. Losing 2TB of data in one blow? Yikes!

Food for thought:
One average 17 minute video
the Raw file from the camera: 4.2GB
uncompressed avi 1080p trailer (22 secs): 2GB
uncompressed avi 1080p video (16 mins): 75GB
Total: 82GB per video update

The uncompressed versions are what I use to make all the different versions later. I've learned my lesson that I HAVE to keep these, because there's no counting on a current version of Vegas opening three years old project files to re-render old videos into higher qualities.

115 photo (raws from the camera): 2.5GB
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shamanix
Feb. 15th, 2013 12:51 am (UTC)
I actually had no idea that 1080p was that monstrously huge uncompressed. And that's without dedicated sound equipment. Hollywood filmmakers must end up with an insane RAID running just to store the stuff.

In all honesty, I was being facetious (mostly) about the raptors. Glad you're using WD, though and not Seagate. I've personally witnessed two separate Seagate drives fail catastrophically inside of six months.

I have a perfect solution:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102288

I mean, it's really quite a deal... and there's plenty of space...

*dodges the objects that are about to start flying*
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elligirl
Feb. 19th, 2013 04:23 am (UTC)
Yeah.. I'm at the point where I really have to decide what I NEED to have on hand for working and what can go into the bank as my archives. Do I need access to 2012 videos in their original format on a daily basis? maybe no? maybe yes? argh.
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