I just bought another one of those Toshiba externals for home use... $75 (after tax) for 2 TB. My kid used up all the HD space on my computer for games.

At home I have 2 different NAS drives: a Seagate Personal Cloud 8TB (something like 5TB storage) RAID and a Netgear 16 TB RAID (something like 12 TB storage). The Seagate is all my music (Apple lossless) and photos. The Netgear is all my movies and TV shows. I'm have about 8 TB data combined right now. I pay $49.99/mo to Google for 10 TB of backup storage and both NASes backup to Goodle Drive whenever new data is added.

I haven't had to do archiving in forever, but when I did do it, we did two sets of DVDs (one onsite and one offsite), then a tape backup, a redundant tape backup and then a NAS with cloud backup.

The last place I worked had a RAID that backed up to a NAS, but here at the state, IT takes care of all that stuff so it's not my problem.

No. The first one was a Cheetah. The second one is a Leopard/Jaguar.

Quote from: Joe on September 11, 2024, 09:06:25 AMMy favorite was Cheetah.

uh...

Your avatar is Hobbes, and uh, he's a tiger?

Quote from: David on September 04, 2024, 01:37:30 PMjust had my external Seagate 1tb drive die, had to get a new one for Time Machine, got a Toshiba 2tb, works great (same price as the 1tb 2 years ago).

I think I have had to use Time Machine a total of 4 times in my life.



My middle name is Lucky

Boy I've nothing but trouble with Seagate drives. I've had Western Digital drives go bad too. The ones I've had that didn't fail were Hitachi and Toshiba. I got little Toshiba 3.0 USB 4TB drives for my various PlayStations and XBoxes and they've been great. Right around $125 too, IIRC.

My cousin married a woman from India (who also lived in England). He went to the beach and found out that the Hindi word for, "shark," is "shaark." I think that's a pretty good word to be the same in all languages. Unfortunately, I know for a fact that the Spanish word is, "tiburon," which, for me anyways, is too many syllables to have to listen to when I'm in immediate danger.

Yeah... Maybe where the Ukrainian flag is by, "News."

Unfortunately we are not a commercial shop; we can only do work for CalTrans and its related entities, but we do have a large format scanner. I don't know if it can do transparencies or negatives, tho, but we use it to archive plans and documents that are 24x36. It can scan up to 42" wide. It's a ColorTrac LF Sci if you wanted to look into it for your shop.

My wife watches Naked and Afraid, but I like, Dude, You're Screwed. There's an Army guy, a Navy guy, a Marine, an Air Force Guy and a survivalist and each episode they kidnap one of the guys and blindfold him. Then they take him to some remote part of the world and dump him off and he has 100 hours to find civilization. He has no way of knowing where in the world he is, he has no food, no water, no tools and they usually give him one item to make his way with, and that item can be anything. It could be a mop, or a phone charging cord, or a Raggedy Ann doll. Usually just something they have lying around. Anyway, the other guys watch him on camera as he tries to figure out what to do, and the whole time this guy has to narrate to the camera what his thought process is and what's he's doing and why.

Quote from: Foozball on July 29, 2024, 07:52:54 AMUntil Jake asks you to "Cook the man some f@#$in eggs!" ...


DISCLAIMER/WARNING: do not look up the reference if you're squeamish, it's almost NSFW and NS for life in general ... you'll recognize "Jake" and while you go "oh yeah, that's th.. ... - HOOLY FOOK!". 

That's like taking the kids to the grocery store and tell them, "Don't put potatoes in your ears." It then becomes their life's obsession to stick potatoes in their ears.

Quote from: DPSprint on July 24, 2024, 08:29:00 PM...gee thanks! 


apparently we have less sheep than we used to...

Fewer than five sheep per person
"The ratio of sheep to people dropped below five to one in 2022, for the first time since the 1850s, when national sheep numbers were first recorded. In 1982 New Zealand sheep numbers famously sat at 22 per person.

New Zealand...
where the children are smart and well behaved...
the women are strong...
the men are lively...
and the sheep are nervous

Glad you figured it out. I'm working for the State of CA now, and they only have Windows down here. I suppose we can put in for Macs next time we need new equipment, but if it's currently working I don't think we can replace it.