On Sunday 10 September 2006 09:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sunday 10 September 2006 03:05, H.S. wrote: > >> I have around 4.5GB of photos from the past few years on my hard disk. I > >> have all of these as albums in digikam. I am thinking of saving these on > >> to a DVD and freeing up the space from my hard disk. I was wondering if > >> anyone has any suggestions on how best to do this. > > Don't be penny-wise and pound foolish! Hard drives never have been more > affordable. If you are pressed for disc space, save yourself much time > and potential grief by simply purchasing a new drive, either as a > replacement or else as a second drive.
I couldn't agree more - in fact, I have just been buying new hard drives and putting them into a raid array to have the majority of my archive on-line. Hard drive space is so cheap these days that you can even afford to duplicate it!. I have also bought a very cheap alumunium case which turns an old IDE drive into a usb or firewire harddrive, so that if I am forced to archive stuff offline, I will do so in the old hard drives that I have left. (Keeping them in the shipping boxes of the new drives is also the plan). [PS I am subscribed to the list, and since your reply was to the poster I was replying to, there is no need to copy me in addition] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
