Comments on: Backup and safety http://lentic.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/backup-and-safety/ Kjell H Andersen on photography and life Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:39:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kjell Harald http://lentic.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/backup-and-safety/#comment-829 Kjell Harald Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:24 +0000 http://blog.lentic.net/2008/01/11/backup-and-safety/#comment-829 I haven't seen the BugffaloTech box in any Norwegian Web stores yet. I think I will go for the FireWire connected box since I don't have a 1Gb network at home. This disk will be the disk I'm using for photoshop and everything else, and there is a significant speed loss, even if you run 802.11n at 5GHz. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#802.11n, the maximum theoretical throughput is 248Mbit/s, and typically it is 74. If you haven't tried it, you should do that before you fork out a large amount of money. Or at least make sure the box you're buying also can handle USB or Firewire in case the speed penalty through the network is not acceptable. As for the off site backup. My employer forces me to show up at this darn office every single day, so I might as well get some benefits out of it, like storing a hard drive here ;-) I haven’t seen the BugffaloTech box in any Norwegian Web stores yet. I think I will go for the FireWire connected box since I don’t have a 1Gb network at home. This disk will be the disk I’m using for photoshop and everything else, and there is a significant speed loss, even if you run 802.11n at 5GHz.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#802.11n, the maximum theoretical throughput is 248Mbit/s, and typically it is 74. If you haven’t tried it, you should do that before you fork out a large amount of money. Or at least make sure the box you’re buying also can handle USB or Firewire in case the speed penalty through the network is not acceptable.

As for the off site backup. My employer forces me to show up at this darn office every single day, so I might as well get some benefits out of it, like storing a hard drive here ;-)

]]> By: Martin Doonan http://lentic.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/backup-and-safety/#comment-828 Martin Doonan Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:31:24 +0000 http://blog.lentic.net/2008/01/11/backup-and-safety/#comment-828 Kjell, I'm thinking along the same lines. The NAS box I'm considering is a BuffaloTech TeraStation which look pretty good at reasonable price. I'll run it off a fast wireless network in a separate room. I like your off-site storage solution, why can't I think of simple solutions like that? Kjell, I’m thinking along the same lines. The NAS box I’m considering is a BuffaloTech TeraStation which look pretty good at reasonable price. I’ll run it off a fast wireless network in a separate room.
I like your off-site storage solution, why can’t I think of simple solutions like that?

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