USB external hard drive storage is rather cheap if you watch for it. I just
bought a 500 GB for less than the 300 GB was going for, $150 dollars. Same
price I got the 250 for a year ago.
Puters are so finicky AND are always hooked to power, (lightening strike can
go through my surge protector and the UPS to the hard drive when powered up)
so every few weeks I put all my pics to an external hard drive, then to a
second one. Most of mine are scientific records that are irreplaceable. I
use to back them up to CD/DVD, only to find out that stuff deteriorates in
3-5 years and is no good anymore. Costs me about the same amount to just buy
another 100 GB external HD and loan it to the State Parks to hold onto in
case something happens to me.
So, get a useable computer and then an external hard drive.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:45 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: : Re: OM peripheral - Canoscan
Please forgive my presumption, Brian, but I think that you might
quickly run out of space on a 40Gb HDD. Your Canoscan will give you
large files if you scan at 16bit and 4000dpi, I should guess at
around 150Mb for a 35mm frame. You will be able to exchange the HDD,
I am sure, but just so you realise that this is going to be needed soon.
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.net
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 22 Feb 2007, at 04:22, Brian Swale wrote:
> Thanks for the hint Mike. Maybe tonight by 10, I may have a
> different
> machine as well; I'm bidding on Trademe for a 3 GHZ, 250 MB mem, 40GB
> machine with XP installed. I hadn't thought of Vuescan.
>
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