rebphoto <rebphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Gang................ > > If one had to only chose one.................... > > What would be the preferred method of storing images............. > > > Using High Quality Gold CD/DVD's > > or An external hard drive. In the digital era, it is *never* a good idea to have your images in only one place; so my advice is don't *ever* choose just one. Mine are on an internal hard drive, two external hard drives, and two sets of recordable optical media (some CDs, some DVDs), one of those sets off-site. But I'm just an amateur, these images have little monetary value. > It would seem like it would be easier > to find images on the hard drive over > CD/DVD's. Thumbs Plus will keep the index info (and thumbnails) of off-line media in its database, so you can browse them and search by keyword, etc., just as if they were online. Neither a hard drive nor optical media are really reliable for a single copy sitting on the shelf for 10 or 20 years. I mean, they *should* be, and *most* of them will (the optical media for considerably longer than the hard drive, if things go right), but as for really *counting* on it, well. For sitting on the shelf unattended I'd give a big edge to the gold CD/DVD, in the end. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
