Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, You told the story concisely and excellently well, thanks. Kudos to your kind subject, too. Best, John On 4/10/12 6:52 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > Richard, > > Thanks for the translation. ;) > > gene > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Man"<richard at richardmanphoto.com> > To: "Leica Users Group"<lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 6:00:40 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: Re: [Leica] The BEST Happy Birthday LUG pictures ever. > > I will translate: while the latest LUG server is fairly new, using last > gen's server chips from Intel, Brian will probably need to replace it > because of the hard drive technology used. Instead of providing worry-free > operation, "hardware RAID" turns out to be A Bad Idea. > > The newest technology uses SSD, basically the same tech used in flash > memory so it's solid, fast and "will not break" comparing to any spinning > disk thingie. It also cost quite a bit more. 10 times faster though. Can > you imagine taking your pictures 10 times faster?! 1/125 at F16 becomes > 1/1250 at F16. Cool. > > We write so much that Brian needs to buy "gaggles" of disks to store our > precious writing, a gaggle is like a flock, except they don't fly. I rcmmd > tht w sv spc frm nw n by skppng ll th wls. > > Or we can just say - "what you wrote there? LUG archive #4781243. Mark > Rabiner has already written the subject to death with far more eloquence > than you can imagine. So stop wasting hard drive space!" > > Hmmm, that could have been LUG Archive #91.2454.28. I should stop N > > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Richard Taylor<r.s.taylor at > comcast.net>wrote: > >> On Apr 10, 2012, at 1:54 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> >>>> >>>> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120409-L1010031.jpg >> >> So, there is is... Our LUG server and LUGmeister in one shot. We finally >> get to see it. Happy 20th! >> >> Not much of a contributor lately, but still a happy reader. >> >> Many thanks Brian. >> >> Dick >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > >