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I highly doubt that XP could even format a 4TB disk. And the system probably would not even detect it properly either.
For that big of a drive, it MIGHT work if you partition and format it on a newer system and then install it on that old as dirt system he is using.
In all reality, if he is growing a photography business, he would be much better off buying a whole new system.
For that big of a drive, it MIGHT work if you partition and format it on a newer system and then install it on that old as dirt system he is using.
In all reality, if he is growing a photography business, he would be much better off buying a whole new system.
True dat! Nothing except grey hair is growing if u have some really old system with xp in it..
Will the BIOS on that computer even recognize a 4TB drive?
And even then, he could get a way faster system for not much more than buying Windows 7 by itself.
How much RAM does that system have? For windows 7 running photoshop, I would want at least 8GB.
The thing is, it is not worth it to patchwork the old system which is really not fast enough to do what he is wanting to do with it.
The time savings of a new, faster system will more than pay for itself in pretty short order.
dulcificum
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It's time to get a NAS...
silk186
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for a few hundred bones you could build a system that would shame it.
Going second hand you could probably get a new MB and CPU for the price of a 4tb drive.
Going second hand you could probably get a new MB and CPU for the price of a 4tb drive.
twistacatz
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I could not agree more. If data is big part of your business you should have some redundancy in place and of course some type of backups.
Lost-Benji
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Upgrade both the system AND the USER before rooting around. You are already getting into a mess if the user is still on an extremely limited (Age & Hardware) limited system and hasn't even realized that they are out of the game.
A system with those specs fails to really meet what the thread title claims of a photography business.
A system with those specs fails to really meet what the thread title claims of a photography business.
To me this sounds like a growing "on the side" photography business. The old PC certainly won't be doing him any favours.
As a start IMO this person should get a NAS running RAID-1 mirroring at least. Projects that are currently being "worked" can/should reside primarily on the PC's local disk for performance. You can use something like synctoy to mirror the active working directory tree to a share on the NAS. Projects which are completed can live on another area of the NAS and not occupy storage on the geriatric workstation.
This arrangement ensures that there are multiple copies of data which is "in progress" for which the product hasn't been delivered and which is yet to be billed to the client. Add an external backup drive to the NAS running something like Synology's Time Backup and you can roll back human error (accidental deletes or modifications, virus infection) and protect against failure of the NAS itself.
At this point, all of the data is still in one physical location and you're vulnerable to theft, fire, flood but perhaps that's an allowable risk. Your friend needs to set what his data retention policy is once a project is completed. Does he hold onto the RAW and PSD files from a project for a while waiting to see if more orders for prints are placed? One, three, six, twelve months? If he lost this data he wouldn't be able to do re-prints but he would already have delivered the primary product (and invoices) to his client so maybe it's not the end of the world (or his/her business).
In my case, I run my non-pro photography like a business, but it isn't. In my case, 80%+ of my photography is of family. In addition to practices for "working data", I also have a permanent archival scheme involving multiple offsite copies etc... I know that I will want and need all of these photos 20 years from now and they are irreplaceable.
They may want to consider some kind of cloud backup for the "working set" as well. A true disaster would be having a burst pipe cause a total loss of a few weddings worth of photos which had NOT yet been delivered to clients. They would have to explain to customers how they lost everything from that special day and could only offer a refund. Bridezilla indeed.
As a start IMO this person should get a NAS running RAID-1 mirroring at least. Projects that are currently being "worked" can/should reside primarily on the PC's local disk for performance. You can use something like synctoy to mirror the active working directory tree to a share on the NAS. Projects which are completed can live on another area of the NAS and not occupy storage on the geriatric workstation.
This arrangement ensures that there are multiple copies of data which is "in progress" for which the product hasn't been delivered and which is yet to be billed to the client. Add an external backup drive to the NAS running something like Synology's Time Backup and you can roll back human error (accidental deletes or modifications, virus infection) and protect against failure of the NAS itself.
At this point, all of the data is still in one physical location and you're vulnerable to theft, fire, flood but perhaps that's an allowable risk. Your friend needs to set what his data retention policy is once a project is completed. Does he hold onto the RAW and PSD files from a project for a while waiting to see if more orders for prints are placed? One, three, six, twelve months? If he lost this data he wouldn't be able to do re-prints but he would already have delivered the primary product (and invoices) to his client so maybe it's not the end of the world (or his/her business).
In my case, I run my non-pro photography like a business, but it isn't. In my case, 80%+ of my photography is of family. In addition to practices for "working data", I also have a permanent archival scheme involving multiple offsite copies etc... I know that I will want and need all of these photos 20 years from now and they are irreplaceable.
They may want to consider some kind of cloud backup for the "working set" as well. A true disaster would be having a burst pipe cause a total loss of a few weddings worth of photos which had NOT yet been delivered to clients. They would have to explain to customers how they lost everything from that special day and could only offer a refund. Bridezilla indeed.
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