Recent content by TheGrew

I picked up the final ex-display model from a curry's back in September last year. I suspect they are impossible to get new any more.

Not sure about the camera though I would guess the 1DS II regarding lenses the 50mm is the only one that would work as it is EF rather than EF-S

I agree with the the above about the 6D as well. After shooting a wedding recently in a fairly dark church on my 70D I was finding I was having the push the ISO up towards 1250 and 1600 at points which whilst the images were acceptable post Lightroom processing. I realized quickly why most...

I agree with Stewart, after looking at MPB and Snapsort I am not convinced you will get something significantly better in low light for the budget. I would perhaps suggest quicker glass or to save up more money, I recently purchased the EF-S 24mm STM Pancake (reviewed here) that I have been...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhYEkRjUWM8 <- This chap has some helpful info.

My personal suggestion Stewart would be to change your passwords and put them in a password manager like KeePass that encrypts them (you then only need to remember one preferably long password) . I use this at work where information security is critical.

I also have never been but this year I am going and decided to hire a 100-400mm mark 1 to put on my 70d.

On the canon side I would be tempted to suggest something like a used 7D paired with the 70-300mm or the sigma lens mentioned before.

I purchased this lens for DigitalRev recently and have been very happy with it (previously had the Sigma 70-300 but wanted something with IS).

I think the RAID level should be indicative of how valuable the data is to you combined with your ability to back it up. 6TB or even 9TB is an awful lot of data to back up to an ideally offsite location.

Depends on the workload but for NL-SAS (the type of disk being used here) we would use RAID6 with the only exception being NetApp which uses its RAID-DP implementation which is based around RAID4

Indeed enterprise drives have better MTBF ratings. I also very much agree with the sentiment about backup (indeed the other half of my job). Currently I backup to local NAS for fast RTO and recent RPO but then also take an offsite copy roughly once every couple of weeks that I keep at my desk...

I am afraid I can't really provide proof apart from mine and my colleagues experience in dealing with enterprise class disk arrays. Regarding EMC best practice a quick Google should bring up documents but I am currently on my phone I can't grab these. As a side thought another interesting study...

As a storage engineer I wouldn't recommend RAID5 as per EMC's best practice for large NL-SAS (SATA Disks with SAS controller). RAID rebuilds with larger drives (1TB+) take a long time in which greater stress is being placed on the remaining disks (increasing probability of subsequent failure).

Ultimately people need to get into the idea of a separation of the hardware and the software (something that is more difficult with Mac as Apple restrict hardware substantially). I recently moved my Wife from a Mac to Windows 8.1 after her iMac hardware began to creek under her Animation...