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April 6, 2011
1 Terabyte Portable Rugged External Hard Drive
When I attempted to restore my photos from the crashed laptop to my other laptop, the hard drive filled up. So after work today, I went by Central Computers and picked up an external hard drive. I ended up going with the LaCie 1 TB Rugged USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive (301945).
Then, when I got home to the crib on Russian Hill, I started recovering my Hawaii photos onto the new 1 Terabyte external drive. I started copying the files over at 8:00 p.m. PDT. It's been running for about 90 mins so far. Says it's 29% complete, has recovered 20,000 image files, and estimated time left is 4 hours. So, I'll let it run all night and hopefully it will finish successfully this time.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on April 6, 2011 at 10:25 PM
Comments
perhaps it time to upgrade to film. I just got the F6 for half its list price. it is so sweet. I suggest for you, get a Canon F1 or similar basic pro body. less electronics = less failure. And you cant crash a roll of film. of course you need to improve your good shot ratio considerably. only 36 shots on a roll, not 2000. ;) seriously though, sorry your having so much hassle. dont waste your money on lottery tickets this month.
Posted by: mop on April 7, 2011 at 7:32 AM
"Upgrading" to film. I have actually had a roll of film crash before. We went on a jeep trip through the rockies and I dropped off the film at a grocery store to be printed. Went to pick it up and she was holding the roll of film like an accordian. Somehow, she'd gotten it out of the roll/canister and the gears in the machine jammed it all up really good, ruining my photos. So, film's not perfect either, unfortunately.
Posted by: Rob Kiser on April 8, 2011 at 4:44 PM