Re: Bye Bye Contact Sheets (was RE: Robert Frank - New York Bus, 1958 )

[Sam Jost]

I use external drives for backup, too. Good things, cheaper than DAT 
cartridges, faster and easier to use.

But I'll never again buy Maxtor, had too much trouble with them, like with 
Fujitsu.

Sam
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From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: Bye Bye Contact Sheets (was RE: Robert Frank - New York Bus, 
1958 )


The external drive is the way to go, IMO.  You get a lot of flexibility.
When I was at my lab last, Kevin, the PS expert, was scanning hundreds of
slides for a client, who just brought his Maxtor to the shop and had Kevin
dump the pics onto.  Another friend uses his external for business and
financial records.  Backs everything up to the drive and stores the drive
off site.
The Maxtor is a pretty good choice from what I've heard.  I'm probably
going to get a Seagate SATA drive (to match my internals) or one of the
newer drives that run off the new Firewire 800mb/sec port.  Take a look at
this:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10025
Shel

[Original Message]
From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11/16/2004 6:57:02 PM
Subject: Re: Bye Bye Contact Sheets (was RE: Robert Frank - New York Bus,
1958 )
Very true, Shel. I consider each CF card download to be a contact
sheet. A one gig card downloads as 72 RAW images, a half gig card
downloads as 36 RAW images. My hard drive is full of dated and
categorized "contact sheets." The best are backed up on CDs.
Eventually, I hope to back up everything on a second drive as well.
(Costco was selling 160 gig Maxtors for $89.00 last weekend.) I almost
bought one, but they were internals, and I'm not sure they would mount
correctly in my dual 1.25 G4. But I plan on adding quite a few more
external drives. Eventually, I'd like to save everything in triplicate.