External Hard Drive Storage
Jan 30, 2012 13:57:26 #
Mickey88
Loc: Central Florida
in theory a perfect set up, however we all know nothing is perfect, a month or so ago on another photo forum I frequent, a photographer told the horror story of such a setup crashing and all 4 drives were dead..
Merlin1300 wrote:
OK - -Listen up - - THIS is MY answer - Your milea... (show quote)
Jan 30, 2012 14:36:00 #
I was doing all my image work-flow and post processing on my Windows OS laptop until Christmas when I got a Macbook and iMac. I now use the Sony Vaio exclusively for Windows application (my engineering business).
The iMac and Macbook are exclusively for photography, entertainment, and communication only (keeping the Operating System platforms segregated - at this time). I have several WD drives with images and data that I have used for storage and backup on the Vaio - from 100GB to 2TB.
I have LaCie, Seagate, WD, and an Apple wireless Time Capsule configured for my Macintosh systems (see image below). I do want at least on other robust wireless storage device (with fault tolerant redundancy), because I really like the ease of transferring image and data files wireless from the Macbook to the iMac on my home network when I get home from off the road...
The iMac and Macbook are exclusively for photography, entertainment, and communication only (keeping the Operating System platforms segregated - at this time). I have several WD drives with images and data that I have used for storage and backup on the Vaio - from 100GB to 2TB.
I have LaCie, Seagate, WD, and an Apple wireless Time Capsule configured for my Macintosh systems (see image below). I do want at least on other robust wireless storage device (with fault tolerant redundancy), because I really like the ease of transferring image and data files wireless from the Macbook to the iMac on my home network when I get home from off the road...
jimni2001 wrote:
I use a Western Digital 3Tb that I bought at Best Buy for $129 US ( they are about $200 now). I have used both seagate and wd and have had success and failures with both. Just get one big enough to do what you want to do.
iMac cropped screen shot...
Jan 30, 2012 15:13:18 #
I too have two Seagates, old one almost full and one newer (but can't remember the size?) It is a FreeAgent GoFlex. Everything on the old one is on there. It just plugs into a USB port. As my graphics are all on my old desk top I am concerned about saving them. I catagorize by month, then dates with titles of subjects, a separate file for Infra Red. As I download from my cameras I put them on the FreeAgent at the same time. This method has worked for me for about five years. If my old computer decides to give up at least I am secure in the knowledge it won't take my pictures with it.
Wendy
Cocoa, Florida
Wendy
Cocoa, Florida
Jan 30, 2012 17:16:31 #
I talked to customer service at Western Digital about my flashing blue light ex hd... they couldn't help.
my next thought is..all of the photos that are on that exhd were at one time on this laptop--they had been deleted but this drive has never been reformatted or anything so right now I am running my photo recovery software on the laptop hard drive to see if it can restore all those old files..
fingers crossed.
my next thought is..all of the photos that are on that exhd were at one time on this laptop--they had been deleted but this drive has never been reformatted or anything so right now I am running my photo recovery software on the laptop hard drive to see if it can restore all those old files..
fingers crossed.
Jan 31, 2012 08:47:32 #
Look in "trash" before you do to much more. Might be there too.
Dria wrote:
I talked to customer service at Western Digital about my flashing blue light ex hd... they couldn't help.
my next thought is..all of the photos that are on that exhd were at one time on this laptop--they had been deleted but this drive has never been reformatted or anything so right now I am running my photo recovery software on the laptop hard drive to see if it can restore all those old files..
fingers crossed.
my next thought is..all of the photos that are on that exhd were at one time on this laptop--they had been deleted but this drive has never been reformatted or anything so right now I am running my photo recovery software on the laptop hard drive to see if it can restore all those old files..
fingers crossed.
Jan 31, 2012 20:12:13 #
Dria wrote:
I talked to customer service at Western Digital about my flashing blue light ex hd... they couldn't help.
No surprise there.
I'm sure you've tried the 'freezer' trick by now.
You might want to try moving the HDD to a DIFFERENT external enclousre - see if it will power up.
If all else fails AND what you had on the HDD has VALUE - you may want to investigate some of the clean-room recovery services. They disassemble your HDD to the point necessary to enable the drive to spin up one last time. Then they put what they recover on a new HDD (you can supply a blank, or they will). It AIN'T cheap though - - probably $1K for 250 GB (don't quote me on that though)
Jan 31, 2012 20:56:10 #
donrent wrote:
No doubt, there are some Ugly's on this forum who uses an external hard drive for image storage... I would like to hear your ideas and recommendations on using one and what you would recommend to buy....
I use an iPad and without a doubt, my favorite way to deal with file storage is with the AirStash Drive. It is a tiny little thing that can be endlessly expanded with SD Cards. It measures 3.6 x 1.2 x 0.5 inches in size.
What makes it so cool is it contains a built-in WiFi router. It does not require existing WiFi. It will stream up to 7 hours of video on a single charge and the latest version will support 128GB and beyond.
Jan 31, 2012 20:58:11 #
Merlin1300 wrote:
quote=Dria I talked to customer service at Wester... (show quote)
Yep tried the freezer.. no go.. I ordered a universal adapter --when that comes I will try taking it apart and seeing if it will give me one last spin. I think I have a good portion of what is on there also backed up on dvds...and my daughter still had almost all of 2011 sitting on her laptop--made me glad she is always taking my memory card and downloading it to swipe stuff for facebook.
I did talk to recovery place-- there is 250gb on it (of 500 available) they said 300-900 for recovery. not in the budget.
Luckily everything had already been printed :)
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