Soldato
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- 5 Nov 2004
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I am trying to get over a really annoying issue with image archives that are just performance hogs.
I regularly return to my previous photography from several years ago because to be frank it is poorly tagged and maintained. I don't have a rock solid archive yet (at least to the standard I want to have one)
I am thinking about bringing about a system like this.
Now the performance of the Drobo is awful for seeking my vast 500ish Gig photo library into immediate play.
what I have thinking of doing is using the best tools I can (in a cost affective manor) using a thunderbolt to SSD caddy to hot swap SSD drives (256Gig OCZ ones) containing a years worth of photography. So if I want to hunt for an image from 2009 I can just pop in a 2009 data contained & cached SSD and browse for the data rapidly. Now these would be my live data versions which I would then use Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate these drives onto a master 12TB Drobo array (because I already have the Drobo) giving me my back up of that drive. I'll probably have a 2nd back up of the Drobo drive to something like a 3TB drive that I'll update once a month or something or after every major input of photography.
A time machine back up will map the OS onto an Apple Capsuel and the internal 1TB drive there too which will be used for downloads as my downloads come in at 6mb per second so the bandwidth of that cable is always under huge load so another reason I cant live work off something like the Drobo until I upgrade to a thunderbolt version down the line.
Like I said this offers me great performance which I so desperately want at the the best cost. The only issue is the SSD drives and how reliable are they.
I regularly return to my previous photography from several years ago because to be frank it is poorly tagged and maintained. I don't have a rock solid archive yet (at least to the standard I want to have one)
I am thinking about bringing about a system like this.
Now the performance of the Drobo is awful for seeking my vast 500ish Gig photo library into immediate play.
what I have thinking of doing is using the best tools I can (in a cost affective manor) using a thunderbolt to SSD caddy to hot swap SSD drives (256Gig OCZ ones) containing a years worth of photography. So if I want to hunt for an image from 2009 I can just pop in a 2009 data contained & cached SSD and browse for the data rapidly. Now these would be my live data versions which I would then use Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate these drives onto a master 12TB Drobo array (because I already have the Drobo) giving me my back up of that drive. I'll probably have a 2nd back up of the Drobo drive to something like a 3TB drive that I'll update once a month or something or after every major input of photography.
A time machine back up will map the OS onto an Apple Capsuel and the internal 1TB drive there too which will be used for downloads as my downloads come in at 6mb per second so the bandwidth of that cable is always under huge load so another reason I cant live work off something like the Drobo until I upgrade to a thunderbolt version down the line.
Like I said this offers me great performance which I so desperately want at the the best cost. The only issue is the SSD drives and how reliable are they.