Digital BW, The Print

Understood Bob.
 Interesting suggestion...switching brands to Western Digital. I'll
have to give that serious thought.
 My situation is probably unique for this board. I don't own a digital
camera. I still shoot film, develop it myself and scan it on an
LS-9000. So, it is not a hassle after scanning a roll of film, to make
a CD backup. It only take a few minutes.

Regards
Ginny

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost"
<bob@...> wrote:
>
> Ginny,
> 
> > Actually, one cannot compare 'like with like' since the essential
> > components of HDs are not made of gold. I have 4 computers at home for
> > me and the family. We have at least one HD failure a year amongst the
> > 4. (Each has 2 HDs---one is for ghosting)
> 
> I would buy a different brand of hard disk in that case!
> 
> I have been using Western Digital HDs for many, many years (20?) and
never 
> had a failure yet. I currently have about 20 WD Caviar and Raptor
disks in 
> various capacities in several computers, and none have failed. Old
ones I 
> either use for backups and leave on the shelf, or sell or give away,
and 
> none of those I have sold or given away seem to have gone wrong either.
> 
> So you can see why I said what I did.
> 
> I used to use Kodak Gold cds and Panasonic DVD-rams, but having now got 
> about 400GB of images, it just seemed impractical to put them all on
cds - 
> I'd need about 600 cds for one copy! I could get one copy on less
than 100 
> dvds, but with reliable 250GB hard disks at current prices, it seems
by far 
> the best option. I keep about three copies of everything on three
separate 
> disks, so even if a disk does go one day, I still would have two
more to 
> recover from.
> 
> So it comes down to three hard disks, versus 1800 cds, or 300 dvds,
for a 
> main copy and two backups. The new dvds will improve things with 15,
20, or 
> 30GB per disk, but we don't know their reliability yet.
> 
> Cds and dvds are great for music and films etc, where you can lose
some info 
> and it still works and most people won't know the difference, but
with data 
> you can't afford to lose anything,
> 
> Bob Frost.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ginnylady33" <ginnylady33@...>
>