So my dad is a digital photographer. I don't live nearby, and he's always been reluctant about opening up his G5 to put more disks in it. As a result, he's got LOTS of external drives. On top of that, he's got tons of archived work on DVDs. He tells his clients he only keeps their stuff for a certain amount of time, but he's kinda a packrat and doesn't like to get rid of work, and probably says that to not be liable for their stuff forever.
I've definately put off helping him for a longtime. His jobs are usually between 20 and 60 gigs, but occaisionally there's one like recently thats 100-150GB. So there's the problem of archiving the old work, and having an expandable solution so he can slide drives in without too much trouble. On top of that, it's gotta be reliable. Maybe a gigantic raid array is the solution--maybe it's DVDs...or maybe a combination of using HDDs and then DVDs for really old stuff.
I really don't know, so I thought I'd get a mass group's opinion
I'd really appreciate everyone's input. This is getting kind of out of hand.
THanks!
I've definately put off helping him for a longtime. His jobs are usually between 20 and 60 gigs, but occaisionally there's one like recently thats 100-150GB. So there's the problem of archiving the old work, and having an expandable solution so he can slide drives in without too much trouble. On top of that, it's gotta be reliable. Maybe a gigantic raid array is the solution--maybe it's DVDs...or maybe a combination of using HDDs and then DVDs for really old stuff.
I really don't know, so I thought I'd get a mass group's opinion
I'd really appreciate everyone's input. This is getting kind of out of hand.
THanks!
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