The Sounds of Hard Drive Failures

Nowadays that hard drives are getting bigger and bigger and more of our photos and information becomes vulnerable to hard drive failures it's important to know what are the symptoms of the hard drive when it start to show signs of heavy use.

Datacent - Professional Hard Drive and Flash Data Recovery Services created a very interesting list of sounds they hear in their data centers of failing drives.

From Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi/IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Quantum you can hear the sounds of the hard drives with bad heads, degraded media, stuck spindle and failing heads.

This is a MUST listen database so you know when you're hard drive is starting to fail. If your hard drive makes noises like these and you are still able to access your files - BACKUP immediately.

Here is the link to the sound files.

Understanding Shutter/Flash Synchronization

Just when you thought you know everything about Shutter and Flash Synchronizations Paul Duncan gets out this magnificent video explaining how this all process work.

From Shutter curtains to Flash synchronization, all with great detail and in a 9 minute video.



Also take a moment to visit Paul Duncan blog with also lot's of good photographic information.

Do You Think Your Gear is Safe When Travelling??... Think Again!!

How many times you have traveled with your bags full of locks and locker systems.

Well let me tell you that with all that security measures your stuff is not really safe inside even with all those sliders locked up.

This video shows how easy it is to break into a zippered bag without leaving any kind trace tampering.
This is why you should try and keep your gear in sight at all times and no matter what.



Have a safe trip...