Saving RAW to DVD

[stevecoleccs]

Hi - I'm trying to save space on the HD - I shoot stock for a living - when I shoot about
400 raw images I will use only 10 or so RAW images & the rest are not trash but MAY be usable in the furture - can anyone think of a "realsitic" reason to save just the best 10 or so RAWS on the HD (with 2 other HD backups) & then burning a DVD for the rest, deleting all the RAWS from
the HD except for the BEST raw images?

[michael]

Hard drives now cost less than 50 cents per GB. A typical raw file is 10MB in size. That makes the cost of storing each raw file about half a cent.

That being the case, why throw anything potentially worthwhile away?

Michael

[marcmccalmont]

$160 for a 500 GB Lacie external drive.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?
sku=A0752071&cs=19&c=us&l=en

I just dump my memory card with Jpegs and RAWs on it when the card is full using downloader pro, easy and cheap 32cents/gb

Marc

[michael]

Close your eyes for a day and the price drops by another 75%.

Scary.  

Michael

[mistybreeze]

Many pro photographers use CD/DVD as a third form of backup. It is the cheapest way to store images that may never see the light of day again. I use DVDs to archive year-old jobs, especially the images that didn't make the final edit. I do this because I'm confident I'll probably never need an image from that disc again. (It depends on the job, though.)

Archiving on external hard drives seems to be the most reliable trend. But I would read MacGurus.com and other places before I would trust LaCie with my "star" RAWs. It seems Hot-Swapable SATA Burlys may be the best pro choice for the future.

[thompsonkirk]

Use both - there's nothing better than redundancy redundancy redundancy.

Kirk

[marcmccalmont]

My technique for what it's worth is to use 4gb memory cards. When one is full I use copy to dvd to archive the contents to a 5 layer dvd. I then use downloader pro to download the contents to the external drive. so far so good.
Marc

[nicolaasdb]

my "technic" since burning dvd's takes up to much of my time.....I shoot about 30GB per shoot..sometimes more... that is about 7dvd x 15 min...forget about it.

So I am buying (constantly) LaCie 1TB or 2TB HD drives and they are dropping in price all the time.

I use 2 drives..one to work of off and the other as a backup drive.

Now with iViewPro I don't even have them running untill I need to download a job or need to retouch the images..the catalog shows me exactly what's on the drive even when it is off.