I make slides for a local TV station's 24/7 loop, and I'm pumping out 200-300mb of uncompressed TIF files a day, and most days I have 15-20 (upwards of 200 on busy days) 11megapixel JPEGs that I have to burn to CD...and at 4-6mb a piece, they add up quick. If I shoot a sporting event with my EOS-1DS, I can burn 2-4 CDs full of pictures. So I'm burning about 500-700mb of new data per day. Everything gets saved to my local drive, my firewire disk array (2tb...more than half is MP3 and divx) and all of the pictures are uploaded overnight via my DSL to a secure FTP.
I've got a friend who does professional portrait photography with a Kodak 645M digital back (16megapixel) and that sucker will pump out 95mb uncompressed TIF files. He recently bought a DLT for backing up all of his work. He used to back up on firewire harddrives until one crapped out on him. Even for his senior portrait work for high school students he uses a Canon EOS-D60 and backs them up the same way as he does his corperate clients.
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I make slides for a local TV station's 24/7 loop, and I'm pumping out 200-300mb of uncompressed TIF files a day, and most days I have 15-20 (upwards of 200 on busy days) 11megapixel JPEGs that I have to burn to CD...and at 4-6mb a piece, they add up quick. If I shoot a sporting event with my EOS-1DS, I can burn 2-4 CDs full of pictures. So I'm burning about 500-700mb of new data per day. Everything gets saved to my local drive, my firewire disk array (2tb...more than half is MP3 and divx) and all of the pictures are uploaded overnight via my DSL to a secure FTP.
I've got a friend who does professional portrait photography with a Kodak 645M digital back (16megapixel) and that sucker will pump out 95mb uncompressed TIF files. He recently bought a DLT for backing up all of his work. He used to back up on firewire harddrives until one crapped out on him. Even for his senior portrait work for high school students he uses a Canon EOS-D60 and backs them up the same way as he does his corperate clients.
I'd rather spend $3000 and get a dual 2Ghz PPC970 in two months rather than waiting for the IBM that probably won't even run Panther.