Storage & Archiving

 
The Storage & ArchivingOf Digital Images
This article represents my practice as of the Summer of 2000.
Where to Put Those Megabytes
When I started in computing in the early '80's I remember buying a box of ten 5" floppies for about $75 and thinking what a waste this was, because I would never needthat muchstorage. Each disk could hold about100Kof data. How would I ever use up themegabyteof storage that this box represented!?
Well, that was then and this is now. For most of us doing digital image processing a high resolution scan ranges from 25-150 megabytes, depending on the scanner and the film size. SinceAdjustment Layerscan double the size of a file, storage and archiving can become a huge headache not to mention expense. Here then is what I'm doing to store, index and archive my images in as inexpensive and efficient a manner as possible. You may find some of these ideas of use.

Wolf Pen Gap, White County, Georgia. September 2000Photographed with a Hasselblad XPan...