Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After three years of frustration trying to connect our two offices with cable (internet), we finally gave up and went with a T-1 line. One persistent problem was that the cable would become cracked here and there, allowing noise from other sources to contaminate the signal (I am trying to interpret this as best as I can from our consultant, who speaks a strange language - we're trying to get him to break things down into tweets for us to study). Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug- > bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Moore > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 5:58 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Seagate > > 2009-07-31-18:32:16 Tina Manley: > > All in all it seems like a good system so I've just ordered a Drobo > > with 4 1T Western Digital Green drives. I hope I did the right thing! > > Probably -- people seem to like it, and the WD drives seem solid these > days. > > > I'll still have to have an external drive to carry back and > > forth with the files that I'm working on. Someday I'd like to have a > > Drobo enclosure in both offices! > > So... are these two offices different buildings at the same property, or > are they entirely separate places (like your town home and your country > estate)? If it's all local, it should be possible to arrange shared > access, and if the places are geographically distinct it should be > possible to arrange synchronization over the internet (if things stay > powered up both places, which you may prefer not to do, and if you have > appropriate bandwidth available). Synchronizing between > geographically-diverse locations, if done cleverly (you wouldn't want to > synchronize the loss or corruption of a file, so it's not a trivial > problem) would help keep things backed up. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information