Re: filmscanners: High Capacity Storage (was CD RW Deal)

["Robert Kehl" <bobkehl@kvernkehl.com>]

Rob,

I think you're absolutely right about CD's having more format longevity than
Iomega products.  But I figure in five years, or maybe 10, we'll have be
able to get 10 terabyte?? raid arrays with mirroring for a few hundred bucks
and we'll transfer all our Iomega's or CD's or DVD's or whatever to live
online hot swappable secure storage.  (how much is a terabyte, anyways).  My
point being that CD's are a good bet for long term storage  if you don't
mind having a few thousand of them around.  (You can't fit very many 4000dpi
TIF scans on a CD). But maybe there's a better short term solution to get us
over the hump waiting for high capacity storage to get as cheap as CD's have
become.

Just my thoughts,

Bob Kehl


----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Geraghty <harper@wordweb.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: High Capacity Storage (was CD RW Deal)


> > on 6/12/01 5:41 AM, Dan Honemann at danh@selectsa.com wrote:
> > > How about the new Iomega Peerless portables (10 and 20GB, USB and
> Firewire)?
> > > Anyone tried these yet?
>
> My only comment here is future proofing.  It's more likely you'll have a
> drive
> which can read a CDR in 5 years time than an Iomega drive...
>
> Rob
>
>