Interesting. The removable media industry seems to be on the brink of a serious downturn. I oversee the corporate IT efforts for the (small) company I work for, and recently my network admin and I agreed to dispense with our expensive tape backup system and switch to a removable hard drive array. It'll save us big bucks every year in media costs and give us a significant performance boost at the same time. Cool!
Tim On 11/16/04 22:47, Sam Jost wrote: > I use external drives for backup, too. Good things, cheaper than DAT > cartridges, faster and easier to use. > > But I'll never again buy Maxtor, had too much trouble with them, like with > Fujitsu. > > Sam > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:11 AM > Subject: Re: Bye Bye Contact Sheets (was RE: Robert Frank - New York Bus, > 1958 ) > > >> The external drive is the way to go, IMO. You get a lot of flexibility. >> When I was at my lab last, Kevin, the PS expert, was scanning hundreds of >> slides for a client, who just brought his Maxtor to the shop and had Kevin >> dump the pics onto. Another friend uses his external for business and >> financial records. Backs everything up to the drive and stores the drive >> off site. >> >> The Maxtor is a pretty good choice from what I've heard. I'm probably >> going to get a Seagate SATA drive (to match my internals) or one of the >> newer drives that run off the new Firewire 800mb/sec port. Take a look at >> this: >> >> http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10025 >> >> Shel >> >> >>> [Original Message] >>> From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: 11/16/2004 6:57:02 PM >>> Subject: Re: Bye Bye Contact Sheets (was RE: Robert Frank - New York Bus, >> 1958 ) >>> >>> Very true, Shel. I consider each CF card download to be a contact >>> sheet. A one gig card downloads as 72 RAW images, a half gig card >>> downloads as 36 RAW images. My hard drive is full of dated and >>> categorized "contact sheets." The best are backed up on CDs. >>> Eventually, I hope to back up everything on a second drive as well. >>> (Costco was selling 160 gig Maxtors for $89.00 last weekend.) I almost >>> bought one, but they were internals, and I'm not sure they would mount >>> correctly in my dual 1.25 G4. But I plan on adding quite a few more >>> external drives. Eventually, I'd like to save everything in triplicate. >> > > >
