Re: Storage

["Michael Alexenko" <alexenko@worldnet.att.net>]

Buy a Maxtor external storage unit.  It connects directly to 1394/firewire,
USB and now USB 2.  Capacities up to 160GB.

Their nice 'cuz now you can have multiple copies of your files (on your
machine, and this box), and it makes transferring files from machine to
machine much easier.

Is it archival, safe, etc?  No solution is "the solution".  My choice has
been to have multiple copies, insuring if something goes bad, I can recover.

MikeA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Job" <joho@xs4all.nl>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: Storage


> Kay,
>
> > Waht do people use for archiving thir precious digital files now?  Does
anyone
> > know the presumed longevity of hard drives, CDs, and DVDs.  Which one
gives
> > the most reliable long-term storage, and are there any brands which are
better
> > tahn others.  I've been using the Kodak Silver/Gold Cds, but they are no
> > longer making them.
>
> Quality is certainly an issue with home-made CD's...  Guess it won't be
> difficult
> to find a decent test in some PC magazine...  Personally I only use
Philips
> Premium Silver Professional CR-R's, which were tested best in Holland some
year
> ago.
>
> > I'm also using hard drives, but am not sure how long they
> > are supposed to last.  DVD is still quite expensive.
>
> Nothing is 100% reliable: when copying one hard disk to another recently I
found
> that one file did't make it (binary images differed).  Nothing wrong
though
> according to several disk scans...
>
> I myself would be very happy if the issue of writable DVD standards would
be
> resolved...  Still too many types to be able to make a decision...  But
being
> forced to burn 100-200 CD's a year (and store them somewhere) doesn't
sound
> very attractive either!  DVD cost would be less of an issue for me.
>
> Curious what others think...
>
> Job
> -
> Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate
> subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.
>


-
Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate
subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.