Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]External hard drives for serious home use? What kind of home generates that much data? One DVD holds 4.7 Gig. You consider that tiny for home use? I used to have external drives made by Iomega. I still have 4 of their cartridges here, each holding a *mammoth* 90meg of data. The computers and with the Bernoulli drives capable of reading these disks are long gone, making them completely unreadable. How long in the future can current hard disks be viable? And what is the life expectancy of a harddrive sitting in storage? I can't believe that an organization interested in archiving priceless data would rely on mechanical media. dan c. At 01:00 PM 01-09-03 -0400, Phong wrote: >CD and DVD are for small volumes (tiny, really) >For real volume, use a farm of disk arrays. >I would use external hard disks for serious >home use. > >- Phong > >Dan Cardish wrote: >> Assuming that an organization such as the New York Times stores it's >> digital files on CDs, how many CDs would it accumulate in a year? And how >> massive a task will it be to convert them all to, say, DVDs? It will be >> relatively simple for a home hobbiest such as myself to transfer the files >> from my 30 or 40 CDs to some future media, but what if I had >> 30000 or 40000 >> or perhaps some much larger number? >> >> dan c. > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html