On 20/10/06, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't gone that route yet, but know many photographers using RAID > setups. I'm still just copying everything to two drives. Works fine > at my current volume.
I'm surprised to hear that your 1800GB of drive space isn't a RAID array, do you run them as independent drives or as on contiguous partition? I've been running RAID arrays for years and during my last server upgrade I added a new RAID controller that will allow my 1TB RAID 5 array to be expanded to just over 5TB. A good RAID solution not only provides greater data protection but also scalability. > Like you, I have yet to have a CD or DVD become unreadable. My > oldest ones date from about 1993 and still read just fine. I > archived a lot of images, though, on Kodak PhotoCD, and I understand > that the file format they used won't be supported much longer. So at > some point I have to open all of those hundreds of files and save > them as TIFF. I don't look forward to that. I also burn DVDs (and previously CDs) as archive/backups and I've not yet found an unreadable disc either. I'd be very surprised if there is not some free or very inexpensive solution available to automate the PhotoCD to TIFF conversion process. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
