I wouldn't dare rely on keeping all my thousands of scanned images, totalling hundreds of gigabytes, on a hard drive of any description. In the course of a year I repair and maintain many computer systems, some with large hard drives, some with raid arrays, the majority of these come in with some kind of hard disk fault! Sometimes it is quite easy to save the files stored on these disks to a CD or a DVD, slap in a new drive, re-boot the system and everything's fine. Then there are the drives that are completely trashed for one reason or another, normal file restoration and saving with these drives if not impossible can be extremely expensive, usually entailing a trip to a specialist data recovery company. In either case the average computer user doesn't want the hassle and certainly doesn't want the cost! I backup my scans and digital images on a regular basis, I scan and process 10 then save to DVD-R using Nero Burning Rom or Nero Express. Working this way the most files I can lose will be 10, it only takes a few minutes to burn 10 images to DVD, it can take hours to scan and process in Photoshop 10 images to the computer.
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