DS for Photography?

DST4ME - I can't say I agree with burning images/media, cause after a while you will endup bunch of dvds and they don't last as long, IMHO its much better to store that stuff on a external drive, and I would not recommend going with drives bigger then 1TB, cause they have a high failure rate. I think best thing to do is get one of those externals that hold like 4 or 5 HDDs and use those, I just ordered one myself cause I have over 2TB of files in storage, and I need to simplify, I got too many externals right now, its will be great combining 4 of them into one, and using esata for faster bandwidth.

DST4ME - You know, this has been a very enlightening experience for me. It is clear to me now that I should have not posted to Damon to begin with. I should have kept my suggestions and opinions to myself and sat on the sidelines as most everyone else on DS forum’s does.

At first it seemed that you were irritated and took personal affront because you apparently did not clearly read, therefore misunderstood my intent of the full comment in my first post in this thread. Being that you will not likely bother to go back and re-read it, it was as follows:

“You may have to contact DS to add the Blu-Ray writer, as the configuration DST4ME lists does not allow the addition of the burner. Or use the Black Ops configurator to fully customize the computer.”

This did not mean that your configuration was flawed in anyway. It was simply that I had suggested the Blu-Ray Writer, & that it could not be added in your configuration because of the limitations of the “Special Deals” configuator.

As I stated in my previous posts “Just my opinion”. Apparently, not only have you misread by comments therefore misunderstood my intent in what I have said in my posts, but based on your following posts, you don’t like my opinions either.

“….let him respond instead of you and then I can give him info…” I was not originally responding to you. I was giving my personal suggestions in my own post to him. It appeared to me that this thread was started by him as an open request concerning suggestions for a computer for the purpose of photography. Being that I am a photographer, I thought that my suggestions might be helpful to him. He did not specify that he wanted information exclusively from you. I’m getting the feeling that you would have rather I not said anything to him and that it is your exclusive domain to make recommendations.

“…maybe its not in his budget to have 2 drives.” And maybe it was! Being that you have clearly stated that he had not mentioned a budget, and I was able to see that for myself, this means that I am not allowed to suggest anything until he stated his budget?

“again once he responds then I can communicate with him, instead of doing it thru you.” After my initial post to him, which you took affront to, you and I have been communicating with each other exclusively, nobody else. But, I guess once you have spoken, everyone else is to shut up, as you have exclusive control of any and all suggestions to him.

“again nothing is mentioned sincew the OG has not responded yet, instead I'm left talking to his lawyer apparently.” Well, I haven’t given any legal advice to anyone here, so because I made a couple of recommendations which you misinterpreted, which then left me trying to clarify myself to you as well as question a few things, you get bent out of shape and make snide comments?

“ok somebody explain to me why one would want to store HDD in subzero environment?” Again, you appear to have an issue reading what I have said, therefore you misunderstand what I am trying to impart. Do you just skim over everything and jump to conclusions or do you really have this much of an issue understanding what others have written?

“I have had more DVDs go corrupt on me then I have had HDDs. So I tend to trust HDDs/sd/usb more then dvds, but thats me.”

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=archival+dvd&N=0&InitialSearch=yes

Then maybe you should try ARCHIVAL DVD’s for the REALLY important stuff instead of what you’ve been buying at Wal-Mart! As I have attempted to make clear, I prefer to keep backups of my photographs stored off site. This means that in my personal case, I burn disks for long-term backup and store them in my unheated shed. As I thought I had made this clear already. I have multiple external drives, but I have had them go belly up in the past as well. I attempt to cover my ass in the event of a fire or theft. But this still seems to elude you. This is where everything started on this thread between you and I because I simply made a recommendation regarding a Blu-Ray writer to someone that was inquiring about a computer for photography purposes.

If you don’t believe or understand the use and reliability of backing up photos or anything else to disk, then take a moment and visit one of the many photography forums and check out what they are suggesting as options for long term safeguarding of large collections of photographs.

I’ll stop here, as most likely you just skimmed over this anyway and managed to not fully take in what I have written.

In closing, I have concluded, that you don’t like it when others chime in, to offer an opinion, when someone has a request regarding computer recommendations.

You clearly don’t like it when someone questions anything that you have said, regardless of their intent.

Sorry that you misinterpreted my posts. I shall not post any further suggestions or recommendations to anyone for any reason here or elsewhere on the DS forums, as I would not want you to continue to have issues with me, or my suggestions to others.

Also my apologies to Damon and anyone else that has been reading this back and forth exchange between DST4ME and myself!

Regards to all.

P.S. - Out of all the replies in response to over 17,000 of your posts, I must conclude that you have had one too many people tell you that "You Rock!"  After our exchange here, maybe I'm the first to ever say..."I DON'T think you rock"