Dear gang,
I discovered the "need more storage" thread just now, by looking in the archives. Long term storage is a hot topic among my friends over here at the moment, but nobody seems to have any "best practice" to point to. "Nobody" includes me too :-) but I would very much like to establish a good practice for myself. So by googling, and some thinking, I've come down to a list of things to consider. I'm not sure if this is a good list to go by, and would very much like to hear some opinions: 1. Longevity of storage medium (Hard-drive, DVD, etc.) 2. Longevity of the technology used to access the medium (USB, SCSI, etc.) 3. Longevity of software support for the chosen file format (RAW, TIFF, etc.) Then there is: 4. Data safeguarding (backup routines etc.) 5. Data availability (access time to a file) 6. Production volume (number of exposures and edit-files) 7. Convenience 8. Cost (both time and money) By any measure, a solution to cover all this points will be a trade-off between several of them. Convenience and longevity pull in the same direction, for example, while cost pulls the other way. So what do you think? And how do you store your precious moments? Thanks for your thoughts, Jostein ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.