Image Archival / Backup / Storage / Editing

[mike j]

I was just wondering what everyone is using for Editing, Archiving, Storing and backing up images.

Editing – I use two machines.. a 17inch mac laptop with Adobe Lightroom and a Dell top end precision with XP Pro dual processors 4GB RAM, SATA’s and RAID 1 a 24 and dual 21’s (ultrasharps) with Adobe Lightroom, I can’t remember the video card (s) but they are 512MB Dual Link DVI.

[Richard Bernabe]

15″ MacBook Pro with 4G of RAM, 23-inch Apple Cinema Display, Adobe CS3 Suite (Photoshop, Bridge, ACR), Capture One, (2) 1 Terabyte external drives RAID+1, iView Media, Spyder 2 Pro.

[John Bennett]

A bit greek to me but here goes. Quad core, 2 gig ram, Vista platform w/ 24inch lcd.

Processing.
Photosop7 and ACR (through elements 6.0). Trial period on CS3 just ended, will move to that immeninently.

Storage
500gig HDD. back up to two 200gig external HDs, which in turn get backed up to DVD.
I try to do my backups periodically although if I have a critical folder that gets backed up immediately.

I do everything by calender quarter. So at the onset of a new quarter, a new folder is created on the HDD, the just completed quarter is backed up and the oldest quarter on the HDD gets a weeding out, backed up, and burned to DvD

[John Pavoncello]

Imac here, burn DVD’s, external HD here and everything worthwhile goes on my Photoshelter account. For the price, it’s still the best archiving system you can use. Four servers in four different parts of the country. Short of a nuke war, all my stuff will be backed up for as long as I want it.
Plus, I can direct sell via my galleries and Photoshelter Collection.

[David Anderson]

I always assume that my gear WILL fail – it’s just a question when
Apple has never let me down in my assumption, I have a 100% failure rate on Apple computers.

www.dsaphoto.com

A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.

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