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Notes from Notchcode

12.05.2005

Dealin' With The Archives

Not only is this a great name for a good DJ Greyboy song, but it's what's on my mind today. As digital content creators, we end up with a lot of bits and bytes to store when the job is done. I'm up to 7 CD-ROMs-worth of archives for Notchcode...representing about six years' worth of content created just for you, my clients. Not every CD is full to capacity, but the catalog still reaches over the 40 GigaByte mark. 40GB...that's a lot of potatoes, as they say in the old country.

Well, as I was cataloging the 71st archive CD, I counted up the total stored, and realized "hmmm, forty gigs...I could put that on a hard drive, these days. And then, I could have a fully content-searchable stash of all my archived content."

Now, six years ago, a 40 Gig drive was no small potatoes, cash-wise. People usually didn't plunk that sort of change down unless you needed it for something important, like rendering scratch disk space for example. But now, you cna get a gig for a buck or two, and I've got about three times that sitting in the form of spare hard drives, just laying around the office. So now, this is sounding like a better idea.

And how to search all of this newly online archived data? Well, six years ago, Apple hadn't released Spotlight, their new indexed searching technology (I hear the new Windows release will have something similar, whenever that comes out, har har). But in late 2005, it's everywhere, bundled into the newest operating system, and ready for me to access across the LAN, if I want.

So, I am a happy archiver today. And if you have a spare 40 Gigs laying around, and Spotlight, you can be, too.

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