Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] Disc drives
From: LRZeitlin@aol.com
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:50:46 EDT

<<External hard drives for serious home use?   What kind of home generates

that much data?  One DVD holds 4.7 Gig.  You consider that tiny for home 
use?>>

Point of interest. My son works for NCR which supplies data warehousing 
systems with multi terabyte drives. A terabyte is 1000 megabytes. The company 
supplies many systems for storage of image material. The real trick isn't storing 
the data, it's keeping track of what you have stored.

I personally have a 40 gigabyte disc on my laptop and a 120 gigabyte disc on 
my desk computer - and I always feel that I am running out of space. I 
periodically purge my hard discs by archiving data on DVDs. With digital image files 
approaching the 20 to 30 MB range, discs fill up quickly.

Larry Z
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