Recent content by dhracer

Yeah I guess, I just think of it of cost vs risk. tbh I'm more relaxed about the 6months on the machine than the x number of years offline - DVDs, blu-ray & CD are rubbish, an external HDD will fail eventually and I can't shell out for a tape drive so one way or another you'll lose something!

I would have thought a bit of software would be worse than raid1? Given the failure rate of the controller is relatively unlikely and you would be expecting a strange failure mode to wipe the drives I'm still struggling to see why it's a bad idea. The failure rate is comparable to that of the...

I've had one hdd failure in 15years and was able to recover the data with ease using Linux tools. Given files would stay in that machine for a relatively short period I'm happy to risk it esp as I'll have acceptable jpegs on the Web of my favourites. Deleting by accident etc, nothing but care...

Thanks for the replies. Just confirmed the laptop is an i3-380m would an SSD make this usable? Why not raid? I would have thought with up to 1tb of pics of the the machine this would be sensible insurance? Or are you suggesting if I switch to LR I'll be able to use the NAS as the only drive...

I'm getting fed up of my current pc taking forever to edit photos so I'm looking to upgrade and/or fix how I'm working. A bit of background: I currently have an i3 (might be i5 but I doubt it) laptop with 8gb ram. I run linux and then a win7 virtual machine which I give 4gb of the ram to. I...

I'm going to have to drop out :( Planning a wedding, training for ironman & work are killing my free time atm :shrug:

My theme for February is "Decay" :boxer:

Disagree, the 2.8 is a faster lens full stop. The person using the 5.6 lens has used faster "film" to compensate for the slower lens. The overall system may have achieved the same shutter speed but the original question related to lenses only :)

Probably because sellers can only leave positive feedback now on ebay from memory, so there's really not much you can do if a buyer shafts you :shrug: . Special delivery, restricting bidders & praying seem to be your only hope these days as a seller :| I'm much more jittery selling than...

Yup, faster glass = wider aperture.

My partner seems to have vanished?? I can't send him messages anymore? Need someone to set me a Feb topic... (would be happy to link up with LadySaslic83 if Rrains2011 isn't here anymore)

:thinking: well here's the rest of my January set. Working weekends hasn't helped much with this month :bang: but I'd definitely like to try more portraits in the future, I've got some ideas of stuff I'd like to do now that will have to wait until summer (& when I've funds for some props...

The still life looks very artificial to me, is just it an HDR image? Shame about the left side but the idea is good and the colours are really vibrant. My favorite is the third, just love the expressions. A faster lens to isolate them a bit more from everyone else might have been nice but...