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RE: [Digital BW] Archiving digital

2005-03-18 by Seth

I'm with you, Richard.  I use mirrored drives so if one drops dead, the
other can create a new one.  NOT a difficult task or voodoo in this day and
age.

I still use DVD as an off-site media, though I have some external drives
also.

Seth

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==From: Richard [mailto:r.tugwell@...] 
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==Slight diversion from the film v digital debate
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==I don't use CDs any longer since hard drives are cheap and 
==big. CD's were always a pain. I always did copies of copies. 
==I could never catalogue them satisfactorily
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==I have 2 S-ATA 300gb drives that I use purely for photo data. 
==I have two areas on disk a) RAW Digital/scanned negatives b) Projects
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