Data migration and organization, deleting duplicates and making space on hard drives while planning out a new workflow is time consuming and dull. But I have got to get all this done if I am going to get back on top of my intended hobby! Over the last few days I have moved a 1TB drive off a RAID enabled NAS, which is to say in lay terms that I took out a duplicate drive from a Netgear Stora, and put it into my PC tower, formatted it, and started moving files from the Stora to the drive in the PC. File migration had to e done this way because a drive from a Stora is not readable on a PC. Once the files were moved, it was time to move the second hard drive into the computer and format it. Then I started moving all my files around so that they are more or less organized, though there is still a lot to do. As Network Attached Servers go, I would not use a Stora again just for the fact that I am required to “log-in” and Netgear set the maximum number of users to 3 unless I pay for a yearly upgrade. They wanted me to pay to access my own data on my own machines. Forget that! What’s more, the log-in software seldom worked correctly in making a local connection, and required a “Remote Connection.” Who knows just what that means, and how much logging is being done by Netgear during such a connection!
So, Netgear’s Stora is falling away from our network, and I am waiting for some items to upgrade my Netbook computer to Windows 8, on a 750 GB Hard Drive. Snazzy!
Okay, that’s all boring stuff, but I needed to document it in my little journal here! What all of this means is that my blogging and photographic workflow will be improved by Christmas!