Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A hero and a gentleman! Brilliant job. I hadn't realised until this morning that you were operating all this out of Hawaii! Fantastic. Peter On 31/05/2024 20:59, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote: > If there are any of you still interested in the terribly nerdy, and not > Leica related, IT based information of this subject, I continue my > tale.... Those that do not care, can hit the delete key and save your > time and patience for other things..... > > Tina has all her images, 40.2TB of them, now on one Synology NAS.? At > this moment, she is directing LR to find all the new places for these > images. Not a fast task, but a necessary one. > > FYI, the copy speed of the Drobos to the NAS was 5TB/ DAY..... the 40TB > of this installation, would have taken 8 Days running 24/7. I made some > errors and there were some duplicated folders, so it took longer... > about 12 days. ? The Drobo was directly plugged into the back of the > NAS, and the NAS was running directly with the USB port,, no computer in > the "middle".? This is the fastest configuration.? The copy was done by > use of the faster O/S of the NAS, not Windows.? (This is SOOOOO nerdy,, > if you wish to know more, contact me directly.? ) > > The Drobo source files are being preserved for a while until we are sure > all the images have been copied properly, none forgotten or misplaced. > They sit on a shelf, without power ( or purpose) for now.? Later they > will be cannibalized for the HDD inside, to go into her ProDrives for a > archive backup to the NAS. > > If anyone has interest in Drobos, and has the insane ( Value judgement > is mine) death wish to use these, please contact? Tina, directly. It is > not time to get rid of them yet, but you should check with her to make > arrangements.... > > I do not suspect there will be a big stampede, but who knows? > > Note on the Probox:? These reasonably cheap ( few hundred $$$) HDD > enclosures have an interesting feature that I will use when we get that > far... they have an eSATA port.? So does the NAS ( not all do).? This is > of value because eSATA is significantly faster (so I am told, 5GB/Sec on > USB 3.0, 6GB/Sec for eSATA) then USB 3.0.? Backup times will be reduced > significantly. > > If you are thinking about also putting all your images on one HDD array, > NAS or RAID or not, AND you have an eSATA port on your computer ( some > do, others do not) this is probably the best way to wire up your > computer... use eSATA to ProBox directly rather than use USB to make the > connection faster. > > Be Aware that eSATA does not support hot-swapping, therefore the > computer has to be restarted to recognize the connected device.? Not a > big deal. Especially if you have only one eSATA device. > > More to come as I get everything working.... better, faster, and more > protected. > > > Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at Gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Dr. Peter Dzwig