But on small scale
projects (I looked at Ecrix, ECHO, AIT1, AIT2, DAT, Travan etc.), which most
photographers have, where the amount of data is up to 300Gb, then a LaCie
BigDisk 500Gb works out far, far cheaper.
I last ran the numbers before latest round of big cheap hard drives hit the market and yes, hard drives are much cheaper than the lower end tapes and the gap was narrowing fast on the high end. Maybe the tide has turned now. That's part of why I now use hard drives. I dropped tapes with DAT DDS3. Anything beyond that and I'm just repeating what I hear oft argued on network admin lists.
Also how can tape be tops for efficiency? You have to change tapes! With a
large hard drive, you never need to lift a finger.
They're supposedly faster than firewire hard drives... probably due to special built in hardware compression schemes...and with a changer (still more money) also no finger lifting. Like I said, I do the hard drive/DVD method these days and find it very convenient and hassle free. I'd imagine it would suit most photographers just fine.
Bob Smith
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