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DC wrote:
I'm pretty close to buying a digital camera. One concern I have is the long term storage of the images. I have serious questions about the reliability of optical media (based on reported issues with CDRs not being readable after a few years). Hard disks fail and I don't consider tape a reliable storage medium for the long term. Perhaps because I work in IT support I'm overly cynical about the hardware involved. Same here. One tip I would give, always keep more than one copy of data (or images) you can't afford to lose. A tip that Pro Norbert Wu gave me awhile back for PC-based backups was to look into USB/FW external peripheral that uses hard drives on removable sleds: you need one reader box, 3 sleds, and 3 160GB ATA drives, and if you shop around and DIY the assembly, its under $500. -hh |
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