RE: photo storage question

[Rick Kessler <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On a plane a few years ago I sat next to a gentleman who was working as a digital media analyst for FlashTrax, the company who makes high priced digital media storage devices for Photographers.

As many of you, I had the same poor-disastrous experiences using data CDs  as backups. Now, I had a chance to any someone in the know.

 

He said it all depends on quality and storage of the CD disk. Most of us buy the less expensive CDs and get burned using them to begin with, then we store them where they me be exposed to a range of temperatures.

 

I backup to external firewire hard disks and data DVDs. I’m using the Memorex Labelflash DVD+R 16X, so far so good on reliability and the Labelflash label gives a great classy visual to the client. Planning on external wireless network attached RAID controller in the next several years, as capacity goes up and prices go down…

 

Thanks for starting this subject, a concern for all of us.

 

Rick

 

 

From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Cunningham
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:49 AM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: photo storage question

 

this is why i like natural art...that which dissolves with time...unfortunately my passion is the image, a cross to bear in many ways

http://www.stevensiegel.net/

 

"somewhere between zero and one...everything else is exaggeration" - Anonymous

 

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From: lea murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:14:54 PM
Subject: Re: photo storage question

Both are fragile mediums, really, and neither one without compromise.

 

The best one can do is do one's best to store well so as to protect the images contained...wether film or digital.

 

Lea

life is short. photograph it.

www.leamurphy.com

On Apr 28, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Trevor Cunningham <tr_cunningham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here in lies a reason to prefer film over digital.  Magnetic storage is far more unstable than sleeves and notebooks.  Burned storage has a suprisingly limited shelf life, so we are learning.  You can still play your cd's from the early 1980's, but the commerically produced materials are much higher quality than anything you can to make yourself. 

 

Indeed, digital is less expensive...but, then again, it's cheaper

 

 "somewhere between zero and one...everything else is exaggeration" - Anonymous

 

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From: Stephen Ylvisaker <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:04:12 AM
Subject: Re: photo storage question

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> I've had four DVDs fail. Meaning the data didn't write or couldn't be 
> read. You couldn't pay me to use it as a back up medium.
>
> Lea
>
> life is short. photograph it.
> www.leamurphy.com

A local photographer also backs up, today, to hard drives. He used to backup to CD's and learned the hard way that he needed to always buy the best quality CD's. Then it was DVD's. He learned also, in the process, that DVD's and CD's can LOSE the data written to them; ie. it can degrade over time. Images he burned a couple of years ago are now irretrievable. Now, it is hard drives only, and he has many.

Stephen

 

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