Wed Jul 1 12:33:28 CDT 2009 Joseph McAllister wrote: > I'm happy with a 200 gig pocket drive that I make my 3rd backup to, > which I keep in my car in the alley.
That's an interesting idea... I am just concerned about the temperature variations causing harm to the drive.. Maybe it is not a problem where you are, - but it is a problem over here. > > A. I have all my master images with me wherever I go. RAW & Jpeg. That's convenient, but I would also want to have the LR database on that same drive. > > B. It's offsite, but only 30 seconds away. If you have wild-fires in the area, that might not be far enough to be really "offsite" > > C. Being USB powered, any computer can access it. I haven't seen any USB-powered computers... ;-) (sorry, just couldn't help passing it.) > > D. It's not that expensive. Just have to remember to bring it in and > back up to it once a week or so. I am actually curious if the processing capacity of a netbook (Intel Atom CPU) is sufficient to run LightRoom. If yes, - a small ~$300 netbook with a 160GB HDD would be a nice backup+view-on-the-go combination. Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
