[Leica] drobo question

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

 "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
> Yes, it's files I've worked on for the past year.  My LR catalogues are by 
> year.  I'm sure I could combine them all into one and LR would still 
> manage to access them just as quickly with its Find feature, but I'm still 
> nervous about putting all of my eggs into one basket.  Each year's worth 
> of photos, filed as DNGs only, is about 1T.  Thanks to LR, I no longer 
> have to keep multiple files of tiffs and jpegs for various purposes.

Somehow, reading this thread, and, despite marvelling at the expertise of 
this disparate group, I get the feeling more and more that Mark Rabiner is 
right, and that it will only be prints that will survive us. A garage full 
of hard drives made increasingly inaccessible by advancing technology with 
future, and of course unpredictable, techno-rot will be a candidate for 
landfill.

"Yes he was big into photography, but I don't know what this stuff is" will 
be murmured by executors as they stare incomprehendingly at an electronic 
Sargasso Sea of computer flotsam.

The tangibility of prints and negatives will rule while an electronic 
droolstream of bits, bytes and megashites will be discarded into the black 
bags of history. So keeping the four hundred and fifty three variants of the 
same picture of your favourite rose, dog, boat or whatever will not equate 
to a mess of pottage.

Say it ain't so, M8 <grin>

Douglas
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Douglas Barry
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Republic of Ireland