Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I much prefer the 2.5" drives because I go on the road quite a bit, and it's nice to carry a set of backups with me. Having said that 500GB 2.5"s are under $80 here, so a few of those isn't such a bad option either. On Jun 5, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > > sata disks are on another pricing free-fall. if you look around, > you ought to get Terabyte drives for $90-$100. just 2 years ago, > 20 cents / Gig was a good price, now it's less than half that. > i recently got a pair of 1.5 TB drives > from Dell for $199 the pair, on one of the very many sales they run. > > lately, with disks so cheap i run them RAIDed (RAID1), either > software raid > on my linux desktops, or RAID NAS enclosures like the Dlink DNS321 > (just over $110, Gigibit ethernet, and takes 2 sata drives up to > 1.5TB). > > > ...and just a hair over 20 years ago, we got a fujitsu eagle, 450 > MB, size of > a legal file cabinet drawer, and sounded like a jet engine at full > thrust... > > > -rei > > > > On Jun05 09:31, Thein Onn Ming wrote: >> I don't think I've even got 6x16GB free on my computer. >> >> I need to buy more hard drives before more cards. :P >> >> On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >> >>> I use 16 gig cards,,,,I carry six of them on trips, and don't delete >>> them till I return and back them up at home, >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: >>>> Interesting finding when inserting an 8 Gig card. :-) For those who >>>> have not >>>> done so yet. :-) It's cool! :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> If only 50 years ago digital and 8 Gig cards were available I >>>> wouldn't have >>>> had to pack 500 to 1000 rolls of film on many of my assignments, >>>> simply >>>> because where I was shooting there weren't any local photo or >>>> convenience >>>> stores. So what you needed or thought you might need, you packed >>>> the >>>> lot if >>>> there was the tiniest of question "I wonder if?". So you took >>>> everything in >>>> the way of equipment and film. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> So to my pleasant surprise I bought an 8 Gig card inserted it into >>>> the M8 >>>> while set on RAW. Surprise.. looks like I can shoot 720 frames >>>> without >>>> changing card.. That's over 20 rolls of 36 exp. Tri-X. Now if one >>>> were to >>>> shoot in JPEG that jumps to 1000 frames! Damn all that film I >>>> had to >>>> hump >>>> around for so many years. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Just thought you might find this an interesting point in favour of >>>> digital >>>> for those who did shoot thousands of rolls a year. And still do. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> However, what I did find upon inserting the card directly to >>>> computer card >>>> reader...... "IT WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD!" A scary moment as there were >>>> some cool >>>> images I really wanted. Ran the situation by my local computer- >>>> photo Guru, >>>> he was sure it wasn't the card as we could see the images on the >>>> camera >>>> screen. But that it might be the computer card reader wasn't fast >>>> enough or >>>> words to that effect, to down load the information. He suggested an >>>> external >>>> card reader of high capacity? We popped in a new HAMA card >>>> reader and >>>> "blink!" There were all the images fly into LR2 on screen. You >>>> could >>>> hear >>>> the breathing again. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Just thought it a moment to pass along in case you hadn't played >>>> with an 8 >>>> gig card. Heck even shooting a football game where quite often ten >>>> or 20 36 >>>> exp. rolls would be exposed during the afternoon. Now one card and >>>> shoot two >>>> games without changing! :-) And no bulging photo vest pockets with >>>> film! Or >>>> changing rolls as the key point of the game is missed! :-( >>>> >>>> ted >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>> information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> THEIN Onn Ming >> *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com >> www.flickr.com/mingthein >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- > Rei Shinozuka shino at panix.com > Ridgewood, New Jersey > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein