Digital BW, The Print

I would also like to have a RAID system. Do you use the IDE for storage and
the better SCSI drives for Photoshop?  Or have you ever had problems with
the IDE drives with the continual writing and overwriting?? I'm thinking of
using an ultra SCSI drive for photoshop and a RAID of IDE drives for
everything else, mirrored and backup...

I like to burn disks, but I use my older powermac to do it. I especially
like sending them to the offset printer, cheap and dispensable when
scratched beyond recognition.  But I have so many of them and no filing
system...I'd also be interested in the system Mark spoke of.

I have not even looked at Iomega products since the click of death killed my
zip drive... ;-(

Carolyn

> 
> on 11/15/01 1:38 PM, SKID Photography wrote:
> 
>> Technology is partially solving the problem.  When we got our Mac G4 we went
>> from 240 mgs to 27 gigs, which we thought was Nirvana.  Now, we are chomping
>> through those 27 gigs and have recently bought into a new Iomega system
>> called the 'Peerless'.  It's similar in function to a Zip Disk system, except
>> it's Firewire transfer (very fast) and each disk holds 20 gigs.  These disks
>> are really IBM hard drives that have been made interchangeable and shock
>> (like from falling) protected.
>> 
>> The initial cost is around $400 and extra 20 gig disks are around @200 each.
> 
> For swappable drives that does sound like a nice system.
> 
> While perhaps not as versatile, I buy additional internal hard drives. For
> under $200 I get top of the line IBM 60gig drives. The caveat is that after
> you already have two drives in your machine you'd probably need to spend
> around $100-$150 for a PCI card that will allow up to 4 more IDE drives. The
> card I got will also allow these drives to be configured as a RAID if
> desired. I haven't done that part yet, though I hope to soon.
> 
> Todd