A thing I never seem to see mentioned about archive storage of your images is the fact you can keep first generation quality copies of digital images at physically diverse locations. For instance you keep one CD in your computer room, one in your safe deposit box at the bank, another at your cabin in the mountains, another at you mom's house on the other coast, and one at a friend's house overseas. There is next to no chance that all those copies will be simultaneously destroyed. You can keep your negatives in only one location if something happens to them there they are gone forever. I can tell you that from first hand experience.
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Ivar Helbekkmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:09 AM Subject: RE: help recovering files in an image after burning a CD > Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > > > "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I hear so many people complain of computer failures and corrupt > > > discs and even upgrading and sometime later finding their new > > > computer doesn't support retrieval of older software - but is that > > > the reality of computers in 2003? > > > > Yes, it is. Expect media to deteriorate, expect new software to > > refuse to read old data formats, and to fail to run at all under new > > versions of operating systems. Think long term: store images using > > common industry standards such as JPEG, not proprietary application > > formats. Remember that those CDs are going to be physically > > unreadable at some time in the future (20 years? 10? 5?), and plan to > > copy the images on them to new media periodically. > > Thanks, with that in mind, storage is less of an issue. > > > > > Every upgrade I have made has made the system more stable and > > > reliable. > > > > You're probably using Microsoft systems, right? They sure have > > improved the stability and reliability of their software a lot in > > recent years, but that doesn't mean a thing as far as long term > > storage of data goes. Windows 2020 may run great, but that won't help > > if your images are stored on physically deteriorated CDs, and in a > > format that can only be read by a software package that was never > > upgraded after 2005, and won't run on anything post Windows 2008! > > Yes, I am at the moment but this may change to a Mac later this year. > Regardless of whatever I end up using, your points on storage of data is > well made. > > Thank you. > > Malcolm >
