One of the things that was kicked around with the advent of digital was the need to move data from one storage medium to another as they become obsolete.
A couple of days ago ago I decided to move the data off 69 CD's, which held the "best" of my *ist-D shots for the first few months I had it, before getting a DVD burner. I have to say - it was more of a hassle than I expected. I have a spare computer here and just fed it the CD's as I was working on the main PC. The CD's were about 5 years old and none of them were bad - but some read fairly slowly, sometimes taking up to 15 minutes to copy onto the hard drive, vs 3 to 5 minutes for most. A couple failed with CRC errors on the first attempt, but then copied successfully after taking them out and wiping them with a lens cleaning cloth. Now I have 42 gigs of files to burn onto a few DVD's. My main motivation for doing this was to make it easier to find some images - these CD's had the original PEF's plus 16 bit final TIFF's on them, and the files came together in a way that left room for only 5 or 6 images per CD, with a fair amount of wasted space on each disk. Over all though, it took hours to copy these files. Since it was a background task on a machine that I just use for scanning and streaming NPR, it wasn't a major problem. But I have roughly 700 more CD's that someday will have to be moved - if not onto DVD's then onto some future media. The thought of that makes me shudder... - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
