Upload Time Wasters

[Darren B]

Either Jont hung himself or it worked and he went to bed ?

scurries off to check nothing has broken any actinic rules and risks the thread being deleted

[jont]

Either Jont hung himself or it worked and he went to bed ?

I was giddly happy the thing finally uploaded in one piece (pleasure comes at a high price)... the ACD completed and copied to the external as a back up. I was one happy and relieved bunny last night

[Darren B]

glad it went ermm well this time

oh lee external drives, following on from Jonts recommendations this here might suit you http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...50473,47200000

similar thing with 1Tb and network connector

[leehack]

ooh network connection sounds good, i take it that can connect to my router and all connections can then access it?

[guccij]

this here might suit you http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...50473,47200000
similar thing with 1Tb and network connector

No!!! Don't go anywhere near this pile of poo.

Got one last week.

It was, to quote WD's technical support people, DOA. Apparently this is "very common" !!!

It has gone back to the retailer.

Wish I'd read the reviews on Dabs first. Got mine elsewhere. Big mistake.

[RuralWeb]

Ive got a pile of broken external hard drives under my desk - waste of time IMO

[Darren B]

you get what you pay for, i was merely offering lee a network version of what had been mentioned, i know he uses a network and might find it more beneficial to have one with network capability.

but lets be honest, if its your lifes work and the data is of importance, then you should have a good NAS and not portable HD, they were not and never have been ideal carry around things.

Always remember these are spinning disks and moving heads, you drop it or shake it you are not going to do it much good. HD fail, fact of life thats why we back up?

[pinbrook]

yep i've gone throught too many ext HDs, however the one i bought as ext which is now inside my PC is still going fine.

I've now got NAS, and use it along with online backup and in an emergency a flash drive is good as it is solid state (not a whirry thingie)

[gabrielcrowe]

what happens then we're waiting for actinic to stop faffing on in your ftp?

http://www.asylumunlimited.co.uk/actichat/

[Donna Kempster]

Quitter

It was the Western Digital My Book .. the 500GB is particularly good value at the moment.

Lee don't know if you've got this yet but my colleague got an even better deal on Amazon on Friday last week (13th). D

[leehack]

Actually i have not yet which is a really good point that i should be getting onto again. Was it this one? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digi...3625511&sr=8-2

[Donna Kempster]

Hi Lee, yes that was the one. D

[Sean Williams]

Can't help noticing there were no hoots of derision when it was suggested going to bed while the upload was progressing.
This has never been an option for us, although a complete refresh doesn't take more than 20 mins, some error or another always crops up 2, 3, 5, or more times during that time - usually along the lines of server not communicating, unspecified failure etc, with the option to retry, which normally works.
It's always been like this, over 4 sites, on different servers, windows or linux, no matter what we put into the network settings.
I've always assumed this was just Actinic at it's buggy best.
Am I missing something?

[leehack]

I get round most of them by using enhanced ftp and changing retries to higher and the space in between tries to be higher. I think the Mole End DuberryFirkin can be told to ignore errors if you buy that.

[jont]

I would never slope off leaving an upload running ... as you say you can never be 100% sure it will upload and if it hangs mid upload you could corrupt the whole cart making it unusable whilst away counting the sheep ... even when test uploading to a private area I have been known to stay up until gone 4.00am to ensure it uploads knowing I have to be up again in 3 hours... all part of the job