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#Mac blockblock review update#
#Mac blockblock review archive#
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checks and do a entailed test every few months lat the NAS perform regular S.M.A.R.T.make sure you perform regularly sanity checks whether your data is correct.

get NAS drives and not the cheapest ones.make sure you use at least Raid 6 or Raid 10 or Raid 50.and buy a new one every five years and use the old one as a backup.always go for the system that you understand best - in my case MACs and before that Atari ST.never think about saving money with storage - it literally can kill you data.five years and copy the information to the available current format since you expect them to change their mind start at day 0 to think about alternatives.expect them to change their mind as you partner might do too.

#Mac blockblock review software#

Never trust in any software or hardware brand.

I have not read the link you posted - there are some things I do which have been very effective in the past 30+ years of digital life: I wouldn't trust anything left unused for 5 years. When drives get wonky I move to new ones. More serious edits should be memorialized in TIFFs. Pity all those who never got around to exporting their MacPaint files as TIFFs. Wouldn't be on Skylum.Īll you can do is prepare as best you can and assume you might need to adapt as time goes on. Who knows? but its pretty likely Lr or Apple Photos or the equivalent will last that long.

#Mac blockblock review update#

Update and refresh the cool storage data every 5 years.Īn asteroid could vaporize you. 5TB) Current backups are constantly updated. (I keep two sets, my current culled backup is about. Keep the same data on current backup disks.

With ever increasing storage capacity I’m trending towards this solution:Įverything as a JPG along with the originals.Ĭopy onto current media (SSD or hard drive) and place in cool storage (basement closet). One had many corrupt sectors and quickly completely failed the other was usable and has been copied to another new hard drive and has been tossed. I just finished updating two hard drives that had been in cool storage for 5 years. Hard drives and SSDs both tend to die at around 5 years, some CD’s are good to 10 years, past that you start to get into costly solutions. It’s starting to look like the most reasonable long term storage process would be to convert every image to a high quality JPG, incorporating any edits stored in the XMP sidecar. What happens in another 10 or 20 years? Will the current version of LR be able to read the old XMP files? Will there be a LR? Will there be a C1? Will the CD’s, SSD’s or what even be readable? Will they last that long? Will Google drive or Carbonite be around? With the transition to M1 my venerable LR6 will die and I will need to transition to the new LR or some other editing software (I’m leaning toward C1). This makes it easy (for me) to open images in other programs, backup portions of the photo collection and share images between different machines. My current workflow leaves all files in a year / month file structure with RAW originals and XMP sidecars storing the edit data for each pic. They all work fine after 40 years and there are many gems worth saving. One of my current activities is culling and doing digital capture of hundreds (what’s left after culling) of B&W / Color slides and negatives.

#Mac blockblock review archive#

Part of my process is to backup previous work to protect against near term failures and archive for historical use. I’m in the middle of a transition to the new M1 Macbook pro.