K-1 Again ... plus
It came back this morning. I had a few problems, but it's working now ... I
think it's working now.
Problem #1 - the first few times I turned it on it came up with the language
selection & I had to set the date & time. Not sure why it did that several times
& I'm not sure how I "fixed" the problem, but it's now starting up to the
regular info screen.
I had to dig out the user manual to figure out how to set it up for back button
focus & get the RAW format set back to DNG.
Anyway, it appears to be fixed and I am quite pleased with the speed with which
Precision Camera turned it around.
In OTHER news. I finally got my home-built NAS server up & running. Two drive
pools configured as "RAID 6"; a 10.42 TiB and a 5.20 TiB.
I still have to learn how to set up the shares and network mapping so I can copy
my files into the storage.
Still got to figure out a backup solution. I don't want "cloud".
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On Wed., Feb. 24, 2021, 5:29 p.m. John, jsessoms002@nc.rr.com wrote:
Still got to figure out a backup solution. I don't want "cloud".
I bought a Drobo in around 2006. It worked flawlessly, but as a USB1
device, it got really slow as file sizes increased.
I upgraded a few years ago to a newer version that is USB3/Firewire.
This one has room for 5 spinny discs plus an SSD that it uses as a buffer.
IIRC, I have 3tb drives in it, and with dual disc redundancy it is giving
me somewhere around 5tb of storage space.
I did have a bit of a disaster with it a whole back, pretty sure my fault,
but I managed to erase my entire image bank from it.
I was able to restore almost everything from other drives and my old Drobo.
Anyway, it's a really easy to get along with solution, and with being able
to lose 2 out of five drives without losing data, I'm confident that I am
the weak point in my data storage solution.
bill
Am 25.02.21 um 00:29 schrieb John:
I had to dig out the user manual to figure out how to set it up for back
button focus & get the RAW format set back to DNG.
I understand that and why the repair shops reset the camera before they
work on them but why on earth can't Pentax let us store our individual
settings on the SD card and reload them after the camera is back with us?
Ralf
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The shares are set up and I've begun copying files to the new server.
Taking it slow & easy because I don't want to risk over-stressing my existing
NAS (I call it the toaster-NAS because it's about the size of a toaster & has
two drive slots).
On 2/24/2021 18:29:17, John wrote:
It came back this morning. I had a few problems, but it's working now ... I
think it's working now.
Problem #1 - the first few times I turned it on it came up with the language
selection & I had to set the date & time. Not sure why it did that several times
& I'm not sure how I "fixed" the problem, but it's now starting up to the
regular info screen.
I had to dig out the user manual to figure out how to set it up for back button
focus & get the RAW format set back to DNG.
Anyway, it appears to be fixed and I am quite pleased with the speed with which
Precision Camera turned it around.
In OTHER news. I finally got my home-built NAS server up & running. Two drive
pools configured as "RAID 6"; a 10.42 TiB and a 5.20 TiB.
I still have to learn how to set up the shares and network mapping so I can copy
my files into the storage.
Still got to figure out a backup solution. I don't want "cloud".
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Religion - Answers we must never question.
I looked at off the shelf storage solutions and didn't find one I could afford.
I built this one out of pieces-parts for ~ $1500 and 2/3 of that is the 10
drives I have in it.
Plus I learned how to do some stuff I hadn't known how to do before.
On 2/24/2021 18:52:08, Bill wrote:
On Wed., Feb. 24, 2021, 5:29 p.m. John, jsessoms002@nc.rr.com wrote:
Still got to figure out a backup solution. I don't want "cloud".
I bought a Drobo in around 2006. It worked flawlessly, but as a USB1
device, it got really slow as file sizes increased.
I upgraded a few years ago to a newer version that is USB3/Firewire.
This one has room for 5 spinny discs plus an SSD that it uses as a buffer.
IIRC, I have 3tb drives in it, and with dual disc redundancy it is giving
me somewhere around 5tb of storage space.
I did have a bit of a disaster with it a whole back, pretty sure my fault,
but I managed to erase my entire image bank from it.
I was able to restore almost everything from other drives and my old Drobo.
Anyway, it's a really easy to get along with solution, and with being able
to lose 2 out of five drives without losing data, I'm confident that I am
the weak point in my data storage solution.
bill
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That would be nice.
On 2/25/2021 04:35:16, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 25.02.21 um 00:29 schrieb John:
I had to dig out the user manual to figure out how to set it up for back
button focus & get the RAW format set back to DNG.
I understand that and why the repair shops reset the camera before they
work on them but why on earth can't Pentax let us store our individual
settings on the SD card and reload them after the camera is back with us?
Ralf
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On Feb 25, 2021, at 12:41 PM, John jsessoms002@nc.rr.com wrote:
I looked at off the shelf storage solutions and didn't find one I could afford.
I certainly understand that game.
I built this one out of pieces-parts for ~ $1500 and 2/3 of that is the 10 drives I have in it.
10 drives? That must be one large case.
I’m very interested in learning what you did. My synology is going to fill up pretty soon and it’s close to maxed out.
It has issues with limits on the partition size, and it seems really quite slow.
Plus I learned how to do some stuff I hadn't known how to do before.
As long as that didn’t include new reasons to swear at electronics ..
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On 2/25/2021 21:14:06, Larry Colen wrote:
On Feb 25, 2021, at 12:41 PM, John jsessoms002@nc.rr.com wrote:
I looked at off the shelf storage solutions and didn't find one I could afford.
I certainly understand that game.
I built this one out of pieces-parts for ~ $1500 and 2/3 of that is the 10 drives I have in it.
10 drives? That must be one large case.
I’m very interested in learning what you did. My synology is going to fill up pretty soon and it’s close to maxed out.
It has issues with limits on the partition size, and it seems really quite slow.
Case is a Sharktoon T9. I have two Icy-Dock FatCage MB155SP-B 5-in-3 SATA
backplanes; two RiiTOP PCIe 6-port SATA III Adapter Cards with 5-2TB Seagate NAS
drives in one cage & 5-4TB Seagate NAS drives in the other.
The 2TB drives were the drives at the $100 sweet spot when I bought them. By the
time I was ready to buy the second set, the 4TB drives were at $100.
Plus I learned how to do some stuff I hadn't known how to do before.
As long as that didn’t include new reasons to swear at electronics ..
No, but I was reminded of some of the OLD reasons to swear at them.
When was the last time you had a computer that wouldn't boot because of a faulty
power switch?
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