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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
is the general consensus that flash drives are the way to go? I just bought a scanner to take to my folks to go through old photographs. I was thinking about sending out disks, but should it be the drives?
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Whether they are the way to go depends upon what you are doing. Will what you want to send out
fit on the flash drive?
The advantage to disks, as in CD or DVD, is cost. The media is
cheap. You still face the question of "Will everything fit?", especially with CDs.
Flash drives are more expensive but quicker. I can copy data to a USB 2.0 flash drive a fair bit faster than I can burn it to a CD or DVD.
And if what you are scanning is photos, you need to think about data format. Scanners I'm familiar with store scans as TIFF files. TIFF is a lossless format, and good for raw data, but for stuff you want to send out or upload to a web site, conversion to something like JPG is advisable. TIFF files are big. JPGs are compressed as part of the format, and a lot smaller. And while it's a "lossy" format, the decrease in picture quality will likely not be visible.
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Dennis