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what 's best to store images on. For long life what is best CD;s tape's SD's DVD's Thanks for any help. Have a nice new year
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Richard Lynch |
Byron, That is a little bit of a loaded question. It will mostly come down to preference. I like to use DVDs for backup and archiving, a RAID system for storing current work and non-archived images, an external hard-drive backup, and off-site storage (having worked for a database company, I am very aware of disaster recovery). I choose DVDs over CDs because of size -- I can just get about 6.5 times as much on a DVD than a CD, so there are fewer around to sort and maintain. There should be other opinions ;-) Richard Lynch
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Sharon Day |
Richard, do you have many DVDs fail while writing photos to them? I recently purchased a Sony DVD writer and a stack of Verbatim DVD-Rs and I bet I have one in three fail while it's being written to. Thanks!
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Richard Lynch |
I almost never have a failure -- the only one I remember was from a visibly damage piece of media. In the past, when I have had troubles with CDs, it has been that a drive will 'not like' a particular brand of media. I would think that is an issue with the drive AND the media -- or even an incompatibility with your system. Software may make a difference as well. I have two DVD writers, an NEC ND-3520A (external firewire) and OPTIARC AD-7170A, and write to them both whether booted Mac or PC. On PC I have been using a command line setup for burning. I'd try different media first. Richard
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Sharon Day |
I use Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6. I like the way I can copy better with this software. I also have Nero. I'll try that too and get a different brand of DVD-R. Thanks, Richard!
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Also try slowing down the write speed if you're burning new stuff to something that already has stuff on it.
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Sharon Day |
Ok, thanks Gregory! That did not occur to me.
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