Ron Hunter  <rphunter@charter.net> wrote:
>>>>Costco has an external 120GB Firewire/USB2 HD right now (Maxtor 7200RPM)
>>>>for $179!
>>>>These are great drives.  I have two of them connected to my laptop as I

>> You'd be surprised what 35,000 Canon 10D/D30 RAW images can fill after
>> they've been processed into full depth tif files...and...slide scans of
>> 50-100MB PER IMAGE add up to...
>Haven't you ever heard of compression, or the delete key, for that 
>matter?  Of course, you could just keep buying more storage, I guess.
>Imagine how much space those pictures would be taking up on even 35 mm film!

Ron, maybe his time is worth more than your's?  He found a solution that
costs less than $400.  So long as he has a organization that keeps track
of all the images, it's likely to be much more cost effective to keep
the stuff.  You could spent weeks deciding what should go or stay.  And
compression -- why would someone who amassed 35k images think about 
degrading them that way?  

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Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com