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

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Interesting. A layman's question - would it not be less
complex/faster/cheaper/easier to have a data library on 20TB drives from
Seagate/WD with USB 3.1 or 3.2 ports , either as an external brick, or with
high quality enclosures? The specs say 10-20 GB/S, though that is only in
Never Never Land, not in the real world!

Cheers
Jayanand



On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 1:30 AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
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
>
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