I finally finished ordering all the photos for Cal Ripken Baseball Saturday. They should be here soon. Once they arrive we will sort through them and put them together according to who ordered what and put them into envelopes. We plan on delivering them on the day of the awards ceremony for the program. We will be having a booth setup with all the envelopes and photos and we will also have some other items to display.
Now that the photos are done we still have a couple of projects planned. I got to join the Firebaugh Police Department Saturday for a barbeque and watching them qualify on the pistol range. It was interesting and I plan on posting some of the photos on here tomorrow. We also have a wedding planned for later on in May which is going to be great and I cant wait to see the happy couple at the altar.
Now that all the photos are backed up I am now ready to make use of those 4 Seagate 1.5TB drives to configure them as a RAID 5. The problem was that the motherboard I bought didn’t support a RAID 5 and Vista doesn’t support a RAID 5 without a separate controller so I went out and bought one. It cost me about $112 on eBay but its worth it if you plan on having a lot of storage and redundancy. The whole purpose of the RAID 5 is to have three or more hard drives act as one big drive giving you speed and redundancy. If one drive fails then you quickly swap that drive out with another and it rebuilds itself keeping your data safe and secure. I started the RAID 5 initialization on Sunday and it said it was going to take about 33 hours to initialize all the drives and give me a total of 4.5TB. Now, my C drive or my OS drive is on a Seagate 1.0TB drive which I plan on using the RAID for keeping backups of the C drive along with my photos and downloads.
That’s all for today. Thanks for reading.
Manuel Perez
I am working on building a new PC and I must say it gets pricey when you want to add things like redundancy. I have been purchasing most of the parts from New Egg which is really great with the prices. In fact I think just about all of the parts came from New Egg except for the processor which I got from my friend. Nothing fancy on the cpu but my friend is going to over clock it for me. Here is what we have in it so far.
This does not count all the taxes and shipping for all the different times I had to buy this and then realized I needed this. That is always a pain. I plan on installing Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit on the OS. I also have a 120GB SATA drive that I plan on hosting my OS on and using the 4 – 1.5TB drives in a RAID 5 configuration and use it to store my music, photos and documents on. I will have another 1.5TB drive that I plan on using for Backups which I know I will have to upgrade that soon to keep all the backups on. Thankfully I use Storage Craft to do all my backups and I must say it is the coolest way for backups.Â
If anyone has any feedback I would appreciate it. I am hoping to have this system up and running by next Friday since I have a Photography Gig coming up. Wish me luck folks!
I have been wondering where do you professional photographers store your photos after so many years? I have a 1.5TB drive as my Main drive and another 1.5TB drive as my backup which I use Storage Craft’s Shadow Protect to backup but what do the pros use? I use Adobe Lightroom 2.0 to keep track of all my photos but as I begin to run at about 300GB left on the 1.5TB Main Drive I am wondering should I archive them onto DVD and keep them in a safe or what?Â
Anyone with any ideas I would appreciate the help!
This is a new server that the other Network Engineer is working on at work. He is building this thing from scratch. I know it has something like two Intel Quad Core Processors and I think about 16GB of RAM and a 4.5TB RAID 5 Drive Configuration. This would be a great setup for my photos. I need something to archive my photos onto and also for my backups. 
