Re: [ARSCLIST] external hard drive for a start for archiving audio files

["joe@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jsalerno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I do the math correctly, 2 Ts is about 3000 CDs worth. How much 
material do you have now to back up? And how much do you anticipate in 
the future?

joe salerno


Frances, Melodie wrote:
> All
>
> We are (as I've probably said a billion times) at the beginning of our
> digitization projects and were thinking that for a cheap start to
> storing our archive copies of our audio files we would store them on an
> external hard drive (that being at least one place anyway where the
> archive copy would go - we have a couple other options but I thought
> that this might be good for the workflow initial place).
>
> Is this an ok idea and if so any recommendations for what brand to get?
> I'm assuming 2 terrabytes but should we go for even more?
>
> Thanks again as always :)
>
>
>
> Melodie Morgan Frances
> Head of Cataloging
> Graduate Theological Union
> mfrances@xxxxxxx
> 510-649-2521