RE: [Leica] PJ standards -- Like Caesar's wife

["Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>]

I would imagine that a news organisation would need the media to be
available online for all sorts of reasons. A RAID system will handle any
mechanical problems that there might be with individual hard drives.

4.7 Gig is not that much. I've been scanning some 6x9 slides from my recent
trip to France. Scanned at 2400 dpi on my flatbed and saved as compressed 24
bit RGB Tiffs they are approx. 55 to 65 mByte _each_ - and that's before
I've started playing with layers etc. in Photoshop. A newspaper probably
isn't going to have files of that size, but they must have pretty large
numbers of smaller files that would fill a DVD pretty quickly.

Regards

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Dan C
Sent: 01 September 2003 18:35
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] PJ standards -- Like Caesar's wife


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.


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