P3D Re: Digital / film

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>What's wrong with CD-ROM drives?  One of the several boring reasons I
bought
>a CDRW drive recently was to store images (um... stereo of course) ,
>particularly  scanned ones that can get to be a bit large.
>
>Write-only-once disk media stores 650-MB and costs between one and two
dollars
>per disk (my first thirty were free if Maxell sends me the rebate
eventually).
>I've purchased re-writable disks ( rewriteable > 1000 times) for $5
each at
>Fry's and they hold a bit over 500-MB each.


My reply is taken out of context.  Bob Maxey was bemoaning the fact that
500MB image files are "unmanageable" with limited resources.  I pointed
out an inexpensive, practical solution to storing large data files.

There's nothing wrong with CD-ROM drives (besides being relatively slow
to read and slower to write) for archival storage, but if your purpose
is to store images you will be modifying repeatedly with, say,
Photoshop, they are the wrong medium, as you will fill one up with a
single image and you can't re-write it indefinitely as you can the
SyJet, Jaz, etc.

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)





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