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From: Charles F Frost <charles@f.frost>
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Subject: Re: Jude (Yeva, Yana) - "Jude-001.jpg" yEnc (1/1) - 001 of 145
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In article <3akgcb99cbgmmcgdetfa1ecajll9vgjjr4@4ax.com>, androo
<hairtoday@gonetomorr.ow> wrote:
> I'm not the ideal person to be posting since I have an
> annoying combination of limited local storage and a restrictive data
> upload cap. The former is only a temporary issue but for the moment
> I'm stuck with the latter.
I sympathize, and I say thanks for everything that you post,
regardless. I'm not enthusiastic about overzealous JPEG compression,
but OTOH I also don't like the trend toward the photographers & studios
using high-def in *everything* including picture sets that don't
warrant it. Quite often it's only a big waste of disk space and net
bandwidth. I think HD should be for videos. But maybe that's just me.
Probably you already know this, but I'll mention FWIW that we are,
in fact, in a golden age of inexpensive disk space out the wazoo, and
it's great. For most folks, the best thing ever is an e-SATA drive
dock that accepts one or two raw drive bricks at a time: you connect it
to an e-SATA port on your computer, or if you don't have one yet you
just add an expansion card, and those are affordable too. Then you
stock up on bricks, either gradually or all at once, as your budget
allows. The docks will take both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives, and
at the moment the 3.5-inch can be had for around $40 per TB. With
the dock, you don't even need to be concerned about buying the
highest-capacity (expensive) drives, as you do when your computer has
few internal drive bays that you need to make the most of. Even if you
have to buy only cheapie one-terabyte drives for the time being, that's
OK; you just do the external plugging and unplugging of 'em as needed.
Some of the e-SATA docks also include bridge controllers for interfaces
other than e-SATA. Of course the only one that makes any sense at all
now is USB 3. With USB 2 and Firewire 800, the transfer rate is puny
compared to even the ancient SATA I (1.5 Gb/s). The docks that I've
seen will do a minimum of SATA II (3 Gb/s) over the wire.
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