[Leica] [Leica} Tina's Drobos... Update: All loaded.

[Frank Filippone]

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.


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