On 30 Jul 2005 at 18:50, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > The puny 160gb hard drive that is used for storing and editing photos and > images is pretty much filled to capacity. My thoughts are running to a USB > or Firewire external drive for storage. Cost aside, would this be a > better/safer way of storing the data than CDs or DVDs? Transferring the > files would certainly be faster and easier, would it not? Is there a > downside to using such an archiving/storage system?
Storing files on an external drive is fine if you are after addition storage space however if you intend it to be a continuously on-line volume and don't require portability then I'd suggest that you have another drive added to the computer internally. It's difficult to compare storing files on optical media vs hard drive. Hard drives are easy and efficient when used as on-line storage (internal or external) however consumer optical technology is relatively poor in this regard (slow and re-writable media is less stable than write once media). Again hard drives can be used as an archive media but optical media is far more suitable. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
