I bought an external, firewire LaCie 240 GB drive that I'm putting all my
photos and digital music on. It's outside the computer and easily
transportable. In fact, I'll likely get another one next year to use as an
offsite backup of the first. They're only $300! I trust a hard disk more than
CD-R's or especially DVD's, which are a real question mark right now for
long-term storage.
If I was using CD-R's, I'd buy the gold archival disks, which are about
$1.35/CD.
Skip
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [OM] Archiving Digital Images - was Re: Oh yeah, now I remember
From: "Jeff Keller" <jrk_om@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:50:53 -0800
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>The local imaging companies use 30MB files to store 35mm drum
>scans (and are using DVDs to transfer scans). A roll of film creates
>a need for over 1GB versus 2 plastic sheets holding 20 slides each.
>The Raw file from an E-1 takes about 10MB which doesn't have
>as much resolution as film. Long term it would seem necessary to
>budget about 20-40MB per image.
>
>Having spent most of the summer fighting an erratic disk failure each
>time I tried to put a 250GB hard drive in my computer. I'm not
>too keen to store images on two different hard drives and then transfer
>all of that to the next generation (EIDE -> SATA or whatever) when
>the computer needs to be replaced..
>
>Has anyone found a good way to archive digital images? It seems
>that the only reasonable choices are DVD or hard drives. I suppose
>file compression could reduce the needs(?) but I don't see anything
>comparable to a file cabinet full of plastic sheets ... ???
>If film scanners become obsolete maybe the file cabinet will become
>a major headache ... ???
>TIA
>-jeff
>(whose digital bit bucket seems to have a leak)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Oh yeah, now I remember
>
>
>>
>> Should I invest in a nice used 4000dpi (or greater) scanner
>> (with Digital ICE) and continue to shoot Velvia for a while? As
>> much as I want to go digital the results from film still are
>> worthy of my attention. I know my scanner is leaving tons of
>> details still on the slides. (especially in dynamic range).
>>
>>
>> AG
>>
>
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