The Dark Side of Photography

[Grant]

Disney World... Using unverified numbers for visitors and camera adoption, tourists generate 3.78 terabytes of data every single day. While corporations are used to dealing with volume like that, consumers are not, and the issue needs to be addressed.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?page=1&guid={E9933FD7-3E91-41E8-B645-78066FD53832}&siteid=mktw

[NMarti]

Wow Grant - that is fascinating. I guess the "click to your finger quits" approach is something to look a little deeper into. By the time I feel like I have a good handle on this new camera I may be overrun by portable hard drives. I do have one now but it never leaves the computer. I just use it to back up in case of hard drive failure - like I had a few months ago. Guess I never really gave it enough thought. Quite an eye opener.

[Carbone]

I can clearly see a market for data storage units...

"Peter, what's that big thing next to your dishwasher.. a mainframe from the 80s' ??"

"No, my digital picture collection, on 70 hard drives. It's a data cabinet, from Kenmore..."

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Ray

[lindajay]

Ray. You made me laugh!

--Linda

[NMarti]

Yeah - and by the time we get a chance to browse through all of them we will be trying to explain to our grandkids what a digital camera was "back in the day".

[troush]

Very interesting. Yeah, I have 1 external 250 GB Maxtor - but it only has about 11 Gig left. It has one full system backup and then about once a month I do an incremental. But, it is here in the house...

One thing I noticed he talked about was how hard it is to delete a photo. I have that problem. I probably won't use most of my pictures, but to delete them? Especially ones of the kids...

-Trish

[NMarti]

After reading that yesterday and thinking about it - yes Grant you made me use my brain - I decided to bring the portable to work with me for safekeeping. I also had a thought as I was leaving the house - TAKE THE SOFTWARE! Since I used the makers backup program it would do me no good without the software to put on a new computer to restore it. Boy - that was a lot of thinking for a Friday morning - need a weekend!