The hand that rocks the SATA cradle
About how many gigs do you shoot per month? I asked this to a few people yesterday and no one really had a straight answer?
It is difficult question to answer. Until recently, I’ve always managed to keep photos from the last two months saved on my my laptop before backing it up to external drives. I also save each shoot in folders organized like this YYYY > MM > YYYYMMDD_subject so things are always easy to get to. Savvy? But now, I’m lucky if I can keep a month’s worth of photos on my computer…There’s just no more room…
Until yesterday, I had been using external drives for backups but, as cheap as they’re getting and as nice as Neil Poulton can make them, knowing how cheap internal drives are too, it sucks to spend premium dollars on a fancy box. But, hard drive enclosures are made so ugly and user-UNfriendly…
What’s a photographer with growing terabyte requirements to do?
Get a SATA cradle!
I got this thing yesterday for $47 and so far, it mounts just like an external USB drive and is running just as fast. The Drobo also seems like a good way to quickly swap multiple drives but I’ve read it runs a bit slow. Definitely something to consider though.
If any of you want to share ideas on backing up, file organization or generally, digital asset management, feel free to comment! It’s a topic that probably interests me more than it should.
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where did you pick this thing up?? That’s genius! Much better than connecting countless external drives. Next you need a fire/water proof safe to keep all these drives in.
So I guess you can just always copy to 1 of these drives, and make a 2nd copy just in case.. and do so until you fill them up.
I probably shoot about 1gb a month, but still this is sweet!
Comment by brian — September 9, 2008 #
wicked dude. what a good find!!
Comment by andrew — September 9, 2008 #