Thanks Ryan,
Your new strategy is pretty close to what I do too. Only I have
slightly smaller disks and am about to run out of space pretty soon.
Jostein
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Hi Jostein,
To help out with your statistics (and to pass some time) I thought
I'd take
a shot at a response.
I've recently reevaluated my storage situation after deciding I'd
like to
switch to shooting RAW primarily, and realising my 80gb notebook had
run out
of space. I've had one 40gb notebook harddisk fail on me once-
started
clicking and not long after I had to come to terms with losing more
than a
few shots. I purchased an 80gb 2.5" with external enclosure (usb 2.0
+
firewire), and not long after a 80gb Vosonic X'S drive. I now also
have a
Zoomextreme ZX8 3.5" enclosure (love this thing.. it's aluminium,
got it's
own large fan and runs fast and quietly) with a 300gb drive inside,
firewire
and usb2.0, can also be daisychained to other drives- I occasionally
link
the 2.5" enclosure too.
With the firewire, the 300gb drive feels nearly as fast as a 'local'
drive,
so storage and editing is pretty straightforward. I keep all
originals (RAW
+ small jpg). I'm also going about backing up all photos to CD-Rs..
conventional ones, and I'm about halfway through. I still don't
trust DVD-Rs
because of a few bad experiences, mainly concerning minor looking
scratches
(judging by how you'd expect it to affect a CD-R) causing read
problems.
The 80gb X'S drive I use for extra storage in the field, I'd feel
more at
ease knowing my files are stored in a medium which doesn't bump in
my bag
around too often.
I haven't really thought about the longevity of the access
technology, but
as long as there are a couple of options to choose from at any time,
e.g.
firewire or USB2.0, which are sufficiently fast for my purposes, I'm
not too
worried.
Hmm.. software support for RAW.. quite happy with it at the moment.
ACDSee
Pro doesn't seem to be as accurate or flexible with my RAW files,
but, it's
still somewhat new in their software, so I trust they'll try to
improve it.
PSCS2 does me alright- if anything, my computer's does things a bit
too
slowly. I think if anything's going to be outdated soon, given me
starting
to be a bit more demanding towards my resources- it's probably going
to be
my computer's ability to cope with it all.
I'd recommend a good 3.5" drive or two- if you can afford it, why
not have a
little farm of them. They're bang for buck, convenient, quick, and
probably
will be relevant for a while. I suppose if you were really bored,
you could
make a cd collection of it all too, just in case.. maybe even store
it
somewhere else. CDs are cheap, and I'm pretty sure that if you
really
wanted.. in 300 years you or someone like you could find some
antique cd
reader on eBay..
Probably nothing new here, but hope it's useful somehow.
Cheers,
Ryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:09 PM
Subject: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Dear gang,
I discovered the "need more storage" thread just now, by looking in
the
archives. Long term storage is a hot topic among my friends over
here
at the moment, but nobody seems to have any "best practice" to
point
to.
"Nobody" includes me too :-) but I would very much like to
establish
a good practice for myself.
So by googling, and some thinking, I've come down to a list of
things to
consider. I'm not sure if this is a good list to go by, and would
very
much
like to hear some opinions:
1. Longevity of storage medium (Hard-drive, DVD, etc.)
2. Longevity of the technology used to access the medium (USB,
SCSI, etc.)
3. Longevity of software support for the chosen file format (RAW,
TIFF,
etc.)
Then there is:
4. Data safeguarding (backup routines etc.)
5. Data availability (access time to a file)
6. Production volume (number of exposures and edit-files)
7. Convenience
8. Cost (both time and money)
By any measure, a solution to cover all this points will be a
trade-off
between several of them. Convenience and longevity pull in the same
direction, for example, while cost pulls the other way.
So what do you think? And how do you store your precious moments?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Jostein
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