Re: using docked drives for fast access?

[Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have the Mac Pro early 2009 and I’ve upgraded it mightily. New video card, additional RAM, I did have my shop install the USB3 ports about a month ago which was a nice upgrade.

I backup locally, daily, using SuperDuper by ShirtPocket.

All my fine art works are saved as full res flattened jpgs and stored off-site on my Amazon cloud which means I can access them from any device.

Figuring out a system is the hardest part, especially with the amounts of storage I use…I’m at 12 terabytes for my personal work and over 10 for my client work.

Thanks for weighing in on this.

Sorry about your drive fail…I’ve experienced that, too, and am so grateful it’s never been a catastrophic loss due to a hearty backup plan.

Lea 

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On May 9, 2019, at 2:39 AM, ALLAN ROSEN-DUCAT <allanrd61@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lea,

Which Mac Pro do you have?

You could add a USB 3.0 card internal and you would have 4 additional upgraded ports.

Answer is, external drives used to be the only way to add storage or perform backups.

Cloud storage services like google cloud allow for redundant off site backup of data.

I use a service which I high recommend called BackBlaze.  I have about 2 terabytes stored

on their cloud.  I also backup redundantly to a 19TB enclosure in home.  

I am mentioning this info because the MacPro aluminum is high expandable and upgradable.

I personally think that Apple’s attempts at replacing the MacPro Aluminum design have been failures.

Enjoy,   I would love to know which model you have.

Hey every one, I had a hard drive 100% crash over the weekend. 

I had been moving lots of large image files when the thing crapped out.

I didn’t have a complete backup locally.  I did have a full backup for the drive on my cloud account.

All I had to do was select the files for that drive on my cloud services site and tomorrow i will receive 

a drive with the data that was on the drive.

Backup often and redundantly.

Best,

Allan

On May 8, 2019, at 4:02 PM, Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Excellent.

I’ve got my dock on order and I have scads of unused sata drives so this should be just perfect.

Thank you.

Lea 

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www.leamurphy.com

On May 8, 2019, at 5:33 PM, Emily L. Ferguson <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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