Evening Reading: What Are You Playing?

by Brian Leahy, Apr 02, 2010 5:00pm PDT

Related Topics – StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft 2

It's Friday! What are you guys playing this weekend? First, you should be listening to Episode 2 of Weekend Confirmed. Then, play what you will!

Personally, I'll be playing more StarCraft II beta, of course. After that, I think some Just Cause 2 is in order followed by some more Super Street Fighter IV!

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Photography Peeps

These huge RAW images are getting out of hand and I need a method to safely store them away for backup. I'm thinking of just picking up a few SATA hard drives and filling them up and putting them away. I will have a copy of these photos on my computer drive as well of coarse. How safe is this method? How long does a modern hard drive last? What methods do you use?

I will be googling this but would like to hear you opinions as well.

Thanks!

Apr 03, 2010 7:54am PDT

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Photography Peeps These huge RAW images are getting out of hand and I need a method to safely store t... : IcomeINpeace
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  I convert everything to DNG. That gives some compression and futureproofing. I then just store on a terab... : steelsamurai
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    do you havea a program to convert? is that compression lossless?
    
    Apr 03, 2010 8:07am PDT
    
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    do you havea a program to convert? is that compression lossless? : aurealis
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      Adobe Bridge does the conversion when you load up from your memory card. The compression is lossless. Ado... : steelsamurai
      
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      But it keeps the metadata? : mlev
      
      Yes. It will even store the original filename in the metadata if you want that. You can also tell it to s... : steelsamurai
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      If you don't have bridge, you can use the Adobe DNG converter: Mac: http://www.adobe.com/support/down... : steelsamurai
      
      thanks! : aurealis
  - Also solo copies are never safe. I would at least burn things I want to DVD. I'm happy with my method as ... : steelsamurai
- I shoot everything in raw, and try to keep as many files in RAW format as I can. Storage is damn cheap... : mlev
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  cool thanks guys..what about SFV or MD5 checksum files? Worth the effort? : IcomeINpeace
  - unless you have a recovery mechanism I'm not sure how useful the checksum would be. : steelsamurai

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