Bob, I was talking to some friends who have huge digital raw and tiff dcam as well as PS archives. One uses DVD's the other spare hard drives. The cost isn't excessive with either. The data will stay put as long as they are physically safe. Of bigger concern is who in a family takes possession of the media? How many picture and negative collections in shoeboxes stored in basements have been lost? One thing for sure there will be perpetual job security for data transfer services. It occurred to me that in the future gobs of these archives will show up on eBay! Another career with perpetual job security is social anthropology! AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 4Th ed. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: off-site storage > From: wildimages@xxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Mon, January 30, 2006 3:54 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >It aint cheap ($50 per mo. for 25GB) relative to $99, 100GB hard drives > >drives. But it is failsafe. > > > AZ > > Alan > > backup is like insurance - you only really get to find how good it is when > you finally need it. > > "Failsafe" is a very strong claim - but indeed off-site storage has be be > safer tha a spare HDD (or two) in the same room and thus susceptible to the > same thief/fire. > > Bob > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Tiscali Broadband from 14.99 with free setup! > http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/
