Pen Drive

[philandlil]

I would like to make a back up of my photographs by storing them on a pen drive, i have around 4000 pictures, anyone know what size pen drive i would need?

[ChuckFickens]

It depends on the size of the pictures...

Do you have a 1megapixal camera or a 10megapixal one?

This is a chart for pics on a memory card, which is the same thing.

Though pen drives are pretty good and convenient for short term backup and transporting stuff about they are not an ideal backup.

You'd be better burning them to decent quality CD's and storing them in cases in away from light (do 2 sets and keep them in different places for the best backup)

[ChuckFickens]

DOH!!!

Guess what I forgot

http://www.picstop.co.uk/pdf/image_count.htm

[philandlil]

Thanks chuckfickens for your reply, my camera is 7.2 megapixels.

Also can you recommend a good make of CD's?

[ChuckFickens]

that's a tricky question because a lot of disks are branded with different names but actually made by the same people

I use TDK for important stuff (and Tesco for just shifting stuff about) but several other brands may actually be identical to TDK disks and made by the same people.

Don't use normal marker pens on CD's either! they will eat the disk surface away eventually! use the proper CD pens

if you really have some time to kill!

http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq07.html#S7-4-1

[fo3nix]

Highlight all the photos, right-click one of them, and click properties. It'll tell you how much space they take up together.

I'd agree with Chuck on everything he said though; CDs are better for archiving.

http://www.dvdshoponline.co.uk/

Good CDs there; any will do really, buy about 50 and you'll get them very cheap indeed.