On Apr 28, 2006, at 4:27 AM, Jostein wrote:
What could change the balance of the equation is the convenience of
having
the images accessible on harddrives, rather than rummaging around
to find
the right DVD. I guess the weight of this factor will be different for
everyone.
It's not just convenience. I spent nearly three weeks coalescing
65,000 image/photo files stored on over 150 CD/DVD volumes back into
a usable, searchable hard disk repository. The amount of time spent
just mounting, copying, and unmounting those small volumes alone was
a considerable portion of the days of work involved. Brought into a
single hard disk repository, I can apply software to verify the files
automatically on a periodic basis ... that's simply not practicable
for a large library of small, slow volumes which must be manually
loaded individually.
Godfrey
