Digital pics

[raingirl]

Don't ask me how, but somehow I have accumulated over 9000 digital pictures since getting a digital camera 3 years ago.... I am going to be formating my drive today, so I am backing up the pics...I'm going on 45 minutes so far!!

[Prin]

Oh, yeah, I know what you mean... I've got like 16gigs of pics already and I just bought my digicam in December last year. I really have to empty my computer out soon.

[Rick C]

I've had my digital camera less than two years and have probably taken about 40,000 frames, with 7,000 remaining on my computer.

Bought a new digital on the weekend, a new Nikon D80 with 10.2 megapixels, rewarding myself for hitting a lofty business target in July.

Rick C
www.goldentales.ca

[Writing4Fun]

Oooooh! Nice one, Rick! Yeah, I'm a member of the 'overactive trigger finger club', too. Only problem is that it's coupled with a little OCD about back-ups of pictures. Ever since my friends went to California on a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation and then the hubby lost all the pics because their PC crashed and he didn't have any back-ups ... well ... I'm a little anal about keeping 3 copies of every picture in 3 different places.

[Rick C]

Originally Posted by Writing4Fun

Oooooh! Nice one, Rick! Yeah, I'm a member of the 'overactive trigger finger club', too. Only problem is that it's coupled with a little OCD about back-ups of pictures. Ever since my friends went to California on a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation and then the hubby lost all the pics because their PC crashed and he didn't have any back-ups ... well ... I'm a little anal about keeping 3 copies of every picture in 3 different places.

Although I can download directly to the 'puter, I tend to take my chip into Shoppers Drug Mart and have a disc made. . . . . and then I occasionally make backups. So I'm okay if I crash . . . which, considering the volume, should be shortly.

I'm thinking of getting one of those external storage devices . . . . cost about $600 I think . . . . but I could jam a lot of pictures on there.

Rick C
www.goldentales.ca

[Prin]

No, no, externals have come wayyyy down in price.
Costco computer "Peripherals"

[raingirl]

external drives are so cheap now. You can get a 260GB drive for under $200. It's less than a dollar a GB with the larger drives now.

[dragon_queen]

I saw this in the future shop ad last week. it was on sale for $129.00 but is now $169.99 but still not bad, it's 40 gig so it can hold a few pics. I like this idea because it's like a portable photo album that holds lots of pics, even if the screen is only 2 inches. I was going to get this for my parents for x-mas (to empty their camera) when they go across canada. http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...54&catid=23795

[raingirl]

Originally Posted by dragon_queen

I saw this in the future shop ad last week. it was on sale for $129.00 but is now $169.99 but still not bad, it's 40 gig so it can hold a few pics. I like this idea because it's like a portable photo album that holds lots of pics, even if the screen is only 2 inches. I was going to get this for my parents for x-mas (to empty their camera) when they go across canada. http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...54&catid=23795

Not worth it. Look at this:

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0063479&catid=

4 times the space but cheaper!!

[dragon_queen]

cheaper yes, but it has no screen to see the pics. I like the more expensive one because you can see the pics right away. it has an all in one card reader so no computer needed. if you are not near a puter ( like if my parents are on the road for their trip across canada) 40 gig holds a lot of pics.

If you use your puter for pics a 160 gig hard drive is better for sure.

DQ

[chico2]

For someone like me,not very computer-savvy,but really worried about losing all my pics one day,would loading the pics to back-up discs be the easiest way??Or buying an eternal drive??
Mind you I don't even know how to do that have to get my son to help

[HunterXHunter]

Just go to your local computer store (I'm not talking about FutureShop or BestBuy) and buy yourself a harddrive (right now 300GB = $110 where I am) and a 3.25" drive enclosure which comes with power supply and cables for about...$25-$40 (they all work the same but the more expensive enclosures look nicer cosmetically) and put it together yourself (takes 5 min.). You can put dvd burner drives etc. in those too (the 5.25" drive enclosures). That's how I have it setup at home. I have like one that I use for back up, another for downloaded movies that I don't have time to watch yet, and a portable dvd burner for my uber-small laptop with no internal floppy/cd/dvd drives!

Oh, and if anyone is in the GTA and requires assitance putting one together, let me know, I'd be glad to show you how.

[HunterXHunter]

Originally Posted by raingirl

Not worth it. Look at this:

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0063479&catid=

4 times the space but cheaper!!

It's not that great for a few of reasons:

1) it requires a software cd!?!? wth? it's just a USB HDD (harddisk drive), it shouldn't require any
2) data buffer = 2MB, they're using *old* HDDs for this, almost all HDDs have at least 8M buffers now
3) warranty is only 1-year, but if you bought an HDD + enclosure and put it together yourself, the warranty is 3-5 years depending on the manufacturer of the HDD
4) relating to #3, you don't which what brand of HDD they put in there, where as you could buy a reliable brand like Quantum or Western Digital if you built your own