2008/7/23 David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My current back up includes transfering files to one external HD, > Maxtor, and to either a CD or DVD depending on the files sizes.
> I'm thinking the CD's and DVD's may go, and add another external and > back up on both. Don't think it would hurt to try that road. HDs have at least as long expected lifetime as to your average CDs and DVDs. The real downside of any HD is that if you melt it, you melt the equivalent of many DVDs... OTOH, maintenance is simpler with HDs for the same reason; fewer items to manage. My own strategy is the Pooh variety; doing both... :-) - but not all of it, all of the time. I have one USB attached HD for day-to-day incremental backup. Then I have a network-attached HD located in a different part of the house to do backup after each significant photographic event or quarterly, whichever comes first. Then I have a few days of the week between Christmas and New Year set off for burning DVDs of the whole vintage, which is then stored in my parents' house. My oldest DVDs from 2003 will be renewed this year, and I'm a little bit anxious about their readability... Jostein > I rarely travel to farms or homes that want to see photos, but with > the small size of the HD's these days, carrying one or two should not > be a problem. Do you bring your own computer to show the images? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
