Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The best advice I have heard was from Reid and it is to store backups on hard disks. IDE hard disks are cheap and extremely stable. For a mere $50 you can snap them into a USB or FireWire enclosure, store the images (or audio, in my case), and then remove them from the enclosure and file the drive away. An 80GB disk takes two to four 'backups' to fill the disk, but that is all the use that the disk sees until it is time to retrieve. I've only been doing this for about a year, but I have other hard disks - hundreds of GB's - that are approaching a decade of general use and they are having no problems. Some day, many many years from now, when IDE is all but gone from the market, I'll migrate my stuff to whatever appears to be the next longest-lived storage protocol, but for now IDE seems to have a lot of life left in it. I don't trust CD-R much at all, personally, too many problems similar to yours, and often in only a few months. - - marc On Dec 29, 2003, at 6:09 PM, SIUASU@aol.com wrote: > I am looking for recommendations for recordable CD's. This past > summer I > burned some photos onto Sony CD-R 650 MB. Well, I recently sold a > couple of > images that were stored on them. Tonight I was going to print but the > CD's are > trashed. They have been stored in a closet and have not been touched > for 6 > months. I have several TDK CD's stored next to them and they are > fine. I emailed > Sony but no response as of this writing. Thank God I have the images > on > film. Just have to rescan and adjust. Open to suggestions. > Thanks > Bruce Morton > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html