Re: image storage

George Holmes (mailto:george.holmes@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU)
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:01:45 -0500

Message-Id: <199610112137.QAA27242@library.wustl.edu>
Date:         Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:01:45 -0500
From: George Holmes <mailto:george.holmes@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: image storage
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

Likewise at the Huntington Art Gallery at the University of Texas at
Austin. We are storing our images on a 9 Gigabyte APS AV drive that is
connected to our server.   It's divided into 4 so we can sub-divide, etc.

>Responding to the message of <mailto:199610111537.IAA11516@dns.ccit.arizona.edu>
>from IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>:
>>
>
>> I'd like to find out how others are storing their compressed images. All
>> input and suggestions are welcome!
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Victoria Yturralde
>> Photographic Archivist
>> Calif. Dept. of Parks & Recreation
>>
>> .
>We, too, are storing our images on hard drives, but are sticking to external
>drives for this purpose. Since this volume is networked we've decided that a
>4.3 gig drive is the best solution to making images accessible over a network;
>we've bypassed the CD-jukebox/optical disk route as well. I realize that
>eventually we might need a larger drive, but for right now we have enough space
>on the drive and since it presents the best option for easy access by endusers
>(as well as quick backups, because we can backup images on the internal drive).
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Anne Troy, Assistant Slide Curator
>College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
>University of Minnesota
mailto:>troyx003@maroon.tc.umn.edu >612-624-4080

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