Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a new disk out now Blue ray perhaps which holds ten or a hundred times more than normal DVD's. But I expect them to also be not the best for archiving. Though I thought I recall that if you got gold disks they were maybe ok. -- Mark R. > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:27:30 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Brian's Presentation > > On 8/14/2011 4:52 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> I thought DVD's and CD's were pretty safe but Brian had always said on the >> list the hard drives were safer. Hopefully someone puts the DVD's on a >> hard >> drive. > I gave up on DVD's and CD's sometime back because of longevity concerns > and having so many of them. A tif file from my SLR is 120mb, so a CD > will hold about 5 of them, or maybe 10 if cropped, not really practical > as a backup. > > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information