> I bought a Road-Stor unit.  I transfer ALL my digital photos to CD.
> I can then downsize to my hearts content and transfer the ones I 
> want
> to my laptop if I desire.

> The Road-Stor unit costs about $350.00 or so when I bought mine. 
> I'm sure
> they probably cost less than that now.


Be aware that CDs will not last forever.
Much FUD around on this but they will have lives from months to 100 
years.
The trick is to get all your valued data on ones which last at the top 
end of this range. I have definitely seen  a few that are at the 
bottom end. Latest developments purport to be producing VERY long 
lifetime products. I have some CDs here written about 13 years ago 
which still work well. And others that don't work at all.

Serious backup requires multiple copies, ideally on different media 
types and physically separated, plus means of verifying the backups 
rigorously, both initially and on an ongoing basis.

For many purposes I find that a hard drive on each of 2 networked 
computers with MANUAL implementation of backup is a good solution for 
photo backup. Having a brain in the loop can reduce certain data loss 
risks as long as the brain is used.




        Russell


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