Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 06/01/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: You (Mac) guys are a hoot, my server RAID partitions are System, Data, Audio, Images. ;-) My drives are all named for places in Ursula Le Guin's novels: Werel, Hosk, Orkney,

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- David Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It must be the PDML equivalent of a slow-news day when we resort to discussing the names of our hard drives. - Dave I was thinking the same thing. -Brendan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread Adam Maas
Digital Image Studio wrote: On 06/01/07, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for naming one of the drives after me:-). Paul My drives are bandit, jack, minnie and willie -- my dogs and kids, living and dead. Paul On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: When I got

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread P. J. Alling
On the only machine currently running the Primary Drive is drive two, and the Secondary drive is drive one... Altogether about 400 gig of storage. David Mann wrote: On Jan 6, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: You (Mac) guys are a hoot, my server RAID partitions are System,

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread mike wilson
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007/01/06 Sat AM 07:40:42 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: How big is big enough? On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: You (Mac) guys are a hoot, my server RAID partitions are System

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread David Savage
I have 600GB (51% full), RAID 0 with 0 partitions, that I lovingly call C :-) Dave On 1/7/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the only machine currently running the Primary Drive is drive two, and the Secondary drive is drive one... Altogether about 400 gig of storage. David

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/6/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 600GB (51% full), RAID 0 with 0 partitions, that I lovingly call C :-) Ah, the wonders of raid 0. My first and only SCSI system included a matched pair of Seagate drives. It booted Redhat 7pointsomething. One fine day a drive wouldn't

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread Bob Shell
On Jan 5, 2007, at 7:48 PM, George Sinos wrote: In the last four years I've managed to fill 300 Mbyte drive. A terabyte is a bit over three times that big. I talked to one of the pros in town and he said he's adding about a terabyte a month to his disk farm. At the moment I have five 300

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-06 Thread Paul Sorenson
Haven't named the drives yet, but my server is Thor - the desktop is Odin. -P Adam Maas wrote: Digital Image Studio wrote: On 06/01/07, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for naming one of the drives after me:-). Paul My drives are bandit, jack, minnie and willie -- my dogs

RE: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Bob W
I don't suppose it will take too long for the OS vendors to fill it with useless fluff. -- Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: 06 January 2007 00:20 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Fw: How big is big

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/5/07, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't suppose it will take too long for the OS vendors to fill it with useless fluff. Don't you think the photographers will beat them to it? -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Shoot more film! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
My OS is only a tiny fraction of my drive space. Photos constitute at least 90% of my available space. Paul On Jan 5, 2007, at 7:28 PM, Bob W wrote: I don't suppose it will take too long for the OS vendors to fill it with useless fluff. -- Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
One terabyte would probably keep me in storage space for another two or three years. But I could fill it faster if I tried. Paul On Jan 5, 2007, at 7:20 PM, William Robb wrote: Check this out. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6147409.html?tag=nl.e539 S -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 06/01/07, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One terabyte would probably keep me in storage space for another two or three years. But I could fill it faster if I tried. I've had a 1TB RAID in operation since May and I've actually managed to reduce my storage requirements since then. The

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 06/01/07, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My OS is only a tiny fraction of my drive space. Photos constitute at least 90% of my available space. My server OS resides on a partition that's 1% of my array and 63% of this space is free. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Adam Maas
I'm looking at adding a similar amount of storage. I picked up a 300GB drive a few months ago and have filled it but thats primarily shooting film (At 2GB a roll for scans) -Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: One terabyte would probably keep me in storage space for another two or three years. But

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks for naming one of the drives after me:-). Paul My drives are bandit, jack, minnie and willie -- my dogs and kids, living and dead. Paul On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: When I got my new Mac I put 2 terabytes of storage in it. John, Paul, George and Ringo. Four 500G

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 06/01/07, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for naming one of the drives after me:-). Paul My drives are bandit, jack, minnie and willie -- my dogs and kids, living and dead. Paul On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: When I got my new Mac I put 2 terabytes

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread David Mann
On Jan 6, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: You (Mac) guys are a hoot, my server RAID partitions are System, Data, Audio, Images. ;-) My two internal drives are Garfield (the name of the machine) and Work. The external drive is called Photo. It must be the PDML equivalent of a

Re: How big is big enough?

2007-01-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: You (Mac) guys are a hoot, my server RAID partitions are System, Data, Audio, Images. ;-) My drives are all named for places in Ursula Le Guin's novels: Werel, Hosk, Orkney, Koppish, Ifney, Atuan, Astowell, Hain, Kargad, Karego At