Archive for the 'Archiving' Category

Cut your archiving costs in half

A lot of you are already using hard drives for long term data (image) storage. Lets look at some of the costs and how to save some cash. After all, spending money on storage isn’t sexy.
An external hard drive (enclosure) is a container for a bare or internal hard drive that uses a [...]

Image Mechanics Off-line Archiving System: The Next Generation

It’s been over a year and a half since first developing the unique archiving system that we have since used to safely and efficiently store the terabytes upon terabytes of image data that our clients consistently generate. In that time, the system has barely changed, and we feel that we can safely say this is [...]

External hard drive failure - easy fix

A friend of mine recently had two daisy chained LaCie hard drives fail on him. Unfortunately, one was backing up the other. He bought a new LaCie and plugged it in and copied a recent job that he was prepping for delivery over to the new drive. Then his computer gave up [...]

PDN online 2 part archiving article

For those of you following the archive discussions, you can check out a two part article I wrote for PDN online here. I am a little late posting this link so the articles have moved off of the main page and into the Technology section. It was great having Sarah Coleman’s help as [...]

Image Mechanics Off-line Archiving System

As capture specialists, Image Mechanics generates a huge amount of data on a daily basis. We have photographers who can shoot over 3000 medium format digital images per day and we often have multiple shoots happening simultaneously.
We had to find a solution for archiving all of this data for ourselves and for [...]

Image Archiving Party Seminar Rocked!

Thanks to everyone that came out to the LADIG meeting last night. Archiving isn’t the sexiest topic to speak about especially preceding Greg Gorman’s beautiful nudes and portraits. Well, you know what they say.. opposites attract.
This camera phone shot of Greg (De Stefano not Gorman) pretty well sums up the evening. [...]

Archiving Seminar LADIG - Sept 13th

I will be presenting an archiving program for the LADIG one year anniversary meeting on September 13th at the Pacific Design Center (Los Angeles) 7-10 PM. The topics will include storage media, data migration, database software and a look at the custom off-line archiving solution we use at Image Mechanics. Think of it [...]