80GB - Not Enough?

[drandy]

I have a D60 and shoot RAW for the majority of the time. I also use Pekka's excellent D60 workflow which results in a 36MB file for each photo saved as a TIF. Storage of these images is now becoming a concern as I don't want to keep everything on my main hard drive (80GB). I do burn some to CD for storage but this takes time and gives me only 18 shots per CD. My question - how do you store your images? I am thinking about adding an external hard drive (120GB or so). Is this the best solution? Are these reliable enough vs. internal drives? Appreciate any feedback on storage?

[davekone]

Why not burn DVDs. At 32 megs a photo you will get a 140 pictures on a $3 disc.

Try doing DV video, 210megs a minute! The only place to store that is on the original tape. Large Recordable removable storage is lagging behind for us digital picture and movie people!

Why cant you get another hard drive internal? The Western Digital 200gb can be bought for $200.

David

[henkbos]

No, not enough. I have 3 hard disks in my PC and just installed a DVD writer.
I don't save my files as 16-bit, just as 8-bit TIFF, plus of course the RAW on a seperate disk.

Want quality, pay the price.

[Kenal0]

[quote]davekone wrote:
Why not burn DVDs. At 32 megs a photo you will get a 140 pictures on a $3 disc.

www.Shop4tech.com has General Use DVDs for .89 each. I have used about 200 and have not had one failure.


Kenal0

[henkbos]

Stick with quality brands. What kind of pennies are we talking about here? There have been stories about DVDs of which the glue was disintegrating!