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From: bolton
I get it. I struggled, hell I was in tears, with pictures of my oldest daughter. She had a mental breakdown when she turned 17. Since I am going backwards in time it really was a shock to me to see how she went from the serious depressed look in her pictures to a cheerful laughing kid. Looking back is not always easy. I feel fortunate that she did not succeed in trying to end her life even if she stopped any communication with us 10 years ago. At least we know she is ok. Anyways, BOT with photos and how great they can be.
Hopefully we stay here.
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https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec4/
Manufacturers tend to use this premise to estimate media longevity. They test discs by using accelerated aging methodologies with controlled extreme temperature and humidity influences over a relatively short period of time. However, it is not always clear how a manufacturer interprets its measurements for determining a disc’s end of life. Among the manufacturers that have done testing, there is consensus that, under recommended storage conditions, CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R discs should have a life expectancy of 100 to 200 years or more; CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM discs should have a life expectancy of 25 years or more. Little information is available for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs (including audio and video), resulting in an increased level of uncertainty for their life expectancy. Expectations vary from 20 to 100 years for these discs.
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Looks like an IP NAS to me. RAID-5 and maybe RAID-10 support?
EDIT: Wow. A little research tells me these NAS units have come a long way since the IP NAS/SAN setups we had 10 years ago at the hospital. Things like Gigabyte Ethernet, large cache, and what sounds like on the fly compression/decompression of streaming media are all news to me.
EDIT: Wow. A little research tells me these NAS units have come a long way since the IP NAS/SAN setups we had 10 years ago at the hospital. Things like Gigabyte Ethernet, large cache, and what sounds like on the fly compression/decompression of streaming media are all news to me.
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From: Somewhere in NJ
Morris/Mike-
yes... It's a 5 bay, and I went with 4TB drives. Prices for larger than 4TB drives skyrocket. It's a RAID 5 config - the device will support just about any config you want. With drive overhead, and the RAID config, I have about 14TB of usable space. I can absorb 1 entire disk failure without issue.
I got sick of migrating from a 250GB to 1TB to 2TB to 6 TB and this last time, jumped all in. I can get to all of my stuff from the internet. It literally does a bazillion things, of which I use like 5. For me, I need the space. I can see it from my TV and Stereo as well. I could rip movies if I wanted to, but with services now, why would I.
I got it about 18 months ago IIRC - and I'm using a paltry 16% of my usable disk.
yes... It's a 5 bay, and I went with 4TB drives. Prices for larger than 4TB drives skyrocket. It's a RAID 5 config - the device will support just about any config you want. With drive overhead, and the RAID config, I have about 14TB of usable space. I can absorb 1 entire disk failure without issue.
I got sick of migrating from a 250GB to 1TB to 2TB to 6 TB and this last time, jumped all in. I can get to all of my stuff from the internet. It literally does a bazillion things, of which I use like 5. For me, I need the space. I can see it from my TV and Stereo as well. I could rip movies if I wanted to, but with services now, why would I.
I got it about 18 months ago IIRC - and I'm using a paltry 16% of my usable disk.
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Dean, any tech will get old. I suspect the availability of DVD drives will disappear before the media goes bad.
I am sure a lot of folks backed up on floppies at one point.
one upon a time we would store things on paper tape. " it's indestructible" until the paper rots away and crumbles when you touch it.
I am sure a lot of folks backed up on floppies at one point.
one upon a time we would store things on paper tape. " it's indestructible" until the paper rots away and crumbles when you touch it.
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So Gary, is that connected to your computer all the time? And available for access? Does it do automatic backups? And the cost?
I have two external hard drives I use for back up but they are a pain to connect and do a backup on. And then hope I did it right. Won't know until I actually have a failure and need the info.
I have two external hard drives I use for back up but they are a pain to connect and do a backup on. And then hope I did it right. Won't know until I actually have a failure and need the info.