On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 05:52:43PM +0100, Bob Pendleton wrote: >With regard to that 'big hard drive' I'm hoping (though they are cheap >enough, these days) that the portable CD-writer will be the answer as far as >my own modest hard disk is concerned. As a matter of interest, I chose the >Apacer CP-100 on the basis that an infinite number of CDs is preferable to a >fixed size hard disk (either in the PC or in a hard-disk portable >card-reader). Time will tell!
I was burning CDs, because a CD is often just large enough to contain one day of random snapshots. They are a pain, since it means that I need to burn them often. I always make two copies, in case one goes bad. I verify them on seperate CD drives, and in fact try to always burn them on seperate drives as well. I worry constantly, since I buy free-market CDs (the cheapest available) that they will go bad sitting on the shelf. So far only one of 200 has, after about four months, but its backup copy was ok. My plan was that a CD would be good on the shelf for at least two years, at which point I would make new copies of everything onto newer media, but I decided I had too many CDs. A batch of free-market DVDs arrives Monday, and I plan to start migrating all my images onto those. I decided not to get archival DVDs since they are so expensive, so I plan on replacing the DVDs a year or two down the line, just to be safe. -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *); /* http://www.nmt.edu/~schlake/ */ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
