Comments on: How long will your digital images last?

By: Rogelio Madin

Rogelio Madin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:37:41 +0000

Oh how I idolised the music euphony from the decade, everything seemed to be way many yeasty than penalization.

By: Ayanna Lauterbach

Ayanna Lauterbach — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:38:27 +0000

feed him one day old pinkie mice snakes can eat thing twice to three occasions their size but 1.5 times the dimension of their grith is better

By: Reuben Woodling

Reuben Woodling — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:22:48 +0000

Hm there a bug with the blog using OPera the text is weird :/

By: recovering data

recovering data — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:38:37 +0000

Yeah learn something everyday.

By: Life Style Blog » Will Data Corruption Destroy Your Digital Photo Library?

Life Style Blog » Will Data Corruption Destroy Your Digital Photo Library? — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:37:20 +0000

[...] Portions of this article originally appeared on Alphatracks.com, the Tom Bonner’s weblog for Sony and Minolta SLR enthusiasts. [...]

By: Life Style Blog » Blog Archive » Wireless Remote Shutter Release 150 ft. range for Canon - 450D, 400D, 300D, 350D, kiss, kiss N, Rebel, Rebel XT

Sun, 24 May 2009 16:59:20 +0000

[...] Portions of this article originally appeared on Alphatracks.com, the Tom Bonner’s weblog for Sony and Minolta SLR enthusiasts. [...]

By: Life Style Blog » NB-5L Lithium-Ion Battery Pack and Accessories for Canon Powershot SD700IS, SD790IS, SD800IS, SD850IS, SD870IS, SD880IS, SD890IS, SD900, SD950IS & SD990IS Digital Cameras

Sun, 24 May 2009 14:24:04 +0000

[...] Portions of this article originally appeared on Alphatracks.com, the Tom Bonner’s weblog for Sony and Minolta SLR enthusiasts. [...]

By: lol money

lol money — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:46:12 +0000

Very informative post! Normally I don’t comment on blogs but this post deserves it

By: rcfa

rcfa — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:52:55 +0000

The issue of silent corruption is taken care of by modern file systems like SUN’s zfs.

The good news for Mac users is: Apple is in the process of adopting zfs. The initial Mac OS X 10.5 release will only have a read-only version of zfs, and it will only be a command-line option. But developer seeds that enable read-write are already out, and it’s clear that either as part of the 10.5 maintenance releases or as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Apple will arrive at full-fledged zfs support.

Other issues are in-memory corruption. Again, back in the days before computer price wars, all computer RAM had parity bits. These days only server grade products do this. So if you’re a Mac user and worried about this, get a Mac Pro, they have all ECC RAM that fights that aspect of the problem.

Between zfs with a RAID-5 zpool and ECC RAM, things are pretty good on the “silent corruption” side of things. Obviously, you’ll still need off-site backup to cover local catastrophic failure (fire, flood, EMP, etc.) Low-grade replacement for off-site backup are uploads to sites like flickr, but it’s better than nothing. Ideally, have a few hundred GB worth of web space and a backup software that’s capable of using WebDAV or ftp as a backup target.

If all these are not enough to save your pictures, you’re likely having more important issues to worry about…

By: rcfa

rcfa — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:47:49 +0000

The issue of silent corruption is taken care of by modern file systems like SUN’s zfs.