Anne,
I applaud your hesitance to put your data on cheap format disks. Always
dangerous.
My personal recommendation, assuming that is the primary purpose of the
device, would be to acquire an 8 or 16 Gigabyte thumbdrive. Such would
probably work for you if your computer(s) is USB capable. The technology is
very stable, reuseable many thousands of times, portable, and not subject
to magnetic interference. Less than $200.
There are also several firewire/USB external hard drives that would serve
your purpose. Easily removeable and portable, they can store a great deal
of data. Their drawback would be fragility and sensitivity to static and
magnetism, and I would hesistate to trust them over the long term if you
travel with them a great deal.
In the long run, you would probably be better off upgrading one of your
computers with a DVD burner anyway, then just a few DVD-RWs would solve
your problem. You could always zip the file if it is a little too big for a
single DVD. You should be able to do that for under $400. I would suggest
going ahead and getting a Blue-ray burner, but they are still quite
expensive.
Good luck.
Mark Janzen
Registrar/Collections Manager
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art
Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection
Wichita State University
(316)978-5850
Anne Lane
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Good afternoon - We use Past Perfect as our collections database, and
periodically I have been backing it up to CDs. If I include all the image
files, I'm up to 4 discs per backup. This gets a little clumsy after a
while, as well as costly. I am nervous using the cheap office-supply,
100-per-spindle CDs for our precious data, but we can't afford to chomp our
way through spindle after spindle of the better quality CDs. Our office
computers don't have DVD burners. Is there some reliable, large-dapacity
storage medium that I could use for these backups, something I could take
home with me, preferably something I could re-use rather than having to use
it once and then discard it?
Thanks,
Anne T. Lane
Anne T. Lane, Collections Manager
The Charlotte Museum of History
3500 Shamrock Drive
Charlotte NC 28215
704-568-1774, ext 110
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