The 2+ terabyte Question

[bl8ter]

I am currently considering joining smugmug, but have a serious problem. Over the last 2 years I have amassed 2484.98 GIGS (yes that is 2+ terabytes) which is stored over way to many dvds. Now if my calculations are correct it would take me 103360 hours, 12 minutes and 4 seconds under optimal connections to load my albums. I have a cable connection with a 60Kb upload rate.

Reading the smugmug faq is states that DVD's can be purchased for $22 bucks plus 10 dollars per gig (or something like that), but never talks about having your DVDs restored. So my first questions is does this type of service exist?

Secondly I have full access to a full DS3 connection (90+ megs/sec) which I could use to upload, But i'm sure smugmug has bandwidth throttling. So my second is question is what are the connections throttled at?

While I realize this is an extreme situation I'm sure as more people embrace digital photography the problem is only going to get worse. To make matters even worse I problably create on average 1 - 2 gigs a week.

Can Smugmug deliver a solution to address my need?

[Mike Lane]

Originally Posted by bl8ter

I am currently considering joining smugmug, but have a serious problem. Over the last 2 years I have amassed 2484.98 GIGS (yes that is 2+ terabytes) which is stored over way to many dvds. Now if my calculations are correct it would take me 103360 hours, 12 minutes and 4 seconds under optimal connections to load my albums. I have a cable connection with a 60Kb upload rate.

Wowza! You're a prolific shooter...

Originally Posted by bl8ter

Reading the smugmug faq is states that DVD's can be purchased for $22 bucks plus 10 dollars per gig (or something like that), but never talks about having your DVDs restored. So my first questions is does this type of service exist?

DVD's restored? You mean having smugmug send you your 2.48498 Tb of pics on DVDs just as you have them right now if something happens to them? I doubt it, but I don't know for certain.

Originally Posted by bl8ter

Secondly I have full access to a full DS3 connection (90+ megs/sec) which I could use to upload, But i'm sure smugmug has bandwidth throttling. So my second is question is what are the connections throttled at?

From some of the posting from Don and Chris, I'm pretty sure that smugmug doesn't have bandwidth throttling. I could very well be wrong but they have talked about users that take advantage of massive bandwidth at the office.

Originally Posted by bl8ter

While I realize this is an extreme situation I'm sure as more people embrace digital photography the problem is only going to get worse. To make matters even worse I problably create on average 1 - 2 gigs a week.

Probably won't be an issue as stated above

Originally Posted by bl8ter

Can Smugmug deliver a solution to address my need?

Sounds like they can to me

[jfriend]

Originally Posted by bl8ter

I am currently considering joining smugmug, but have a serious problem. Over the last 2 years I have amassed 2484.98 GIGS (yes that is 2+ terabytes) which is stored over way to many dvds. Now if my calculations are correct it would take me 103360 hours, 12 minutes and 4 seconds under optimal connections to load my albums. I have a cable connection with a 60Kb upload rate.

Reading the smugmug faq is states that DVD's can be purchased for $22 bucks plus 10 dollars per gig (or something like that), but never talks about having your DVDs restored. So my first questions is does this type of service exist?

Secondly I have full access to a full DS3 connection (90+ megs/sec) which I could use to upload, But i'm sure smugmug has bandwidth throttling. So my second is question is what are the connections throttled at?

While I realize this is an extreme situation I'm sure as more people embrace digital photography the problem is only going to get worse. To make matters even worse I problably create on average 1 - 2 gigs a week.

Can Smugmug deliver a solution to address my need?

I have, in the past, uploaded 1000 images at a time from a T1 connection and the uploads go extremely fast so I don't think smugmug was throttling anything on their end at the time. Why don't you just sign-up with the free trial account and try it out. I used StarExplorer to do my uploads. It let's me set up a whole hieararchy of galleries and uploads ahead of time and then just do all the uploads in one unattended session.

[bl8ter]

Originally Posted by Mike Lane

DVD's restored? You mean having smugmug send you your 2.48498 Tb of pics on DVDs just as you have them right now if something happens to them? I doubt it, but I don't know for certain.

LOL... No I will send them MY stacks of DVDs and they can restore them to my account.... This would be a great service....

[Mike Lane]

Originally Posted by bl8ter

LOL... No I will send them MY stacks of DVDs and they can restore them to my account.... This would be a great service....

You can send them electronically

[bl8ter]

Originally Posted by jfriend

I have, in the past, uploaded 1000 images at a time from a T1 connection and the uploads go extremely fast so I don't think smugmug was throttling anything on their end at the time. Why don't you just sign-up with the free trial account and try it out. I used StarExplorer to do my uploads. It let's me set up a whole hieararchy of galleries and uploads ahead of time and then just do all the uploads in one unattended session.

yeah I will sign up for the trial and see if I can move 2 tera bytes in 7 days... I will report back the results. StarExplorer looks nice, but I only use Linux... I will have to find something else...

Thanks for your help.

[Mac Write]

This will be very entertaining. Can't wait to see the servers croak under the load and Smugmug having to buy an XRaid fully loaded just for your site LOL.

[marlinspike]

Have you ever thought about saving them as quality 10 jpgs? Over that many files that would save a lot of space.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by bl8ter

Can Smugmug deliver a solution to address my need?

Hi bl8ter, welcome to Dgrin and SmugMug.

These help pages might be of use to you.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/faqgen
http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-storage

Backups are for us to create copies of what you have stored:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/backups

We don't have a service where you can send us your dvds, sorry about that.

All the best,

[bl8ter]

Originally Posted by Andy

Hi bl8ter, welcome to Dgrin and SmugMug.

These help pages might be of use to you.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/faqgen
http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-storage

Backups are for us to create copies of what you have stored:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/backups

We don't have a service where you can send us your dvds, sorry about that.

All the best,

I read the http://www.smugmug.com/help/faqgen and it specifies 24gig yearly limit( or 2gigs per month) of bandwidth. Is this only for viewing? or does this include the uploading of pictures also.

Thanks.