Photo Storage - any suggestions please?

Question

My G4 is nearly five years old and going strong. I take a lot of photos. However, I can't store my photos on iPhoto because it slows up so much, so I have been saving them to CD, but that isn't satisfactory for a number of reasons - I lose or can't locate the relevant CD and even when I can access it, I can never find the photo I want.
There must be a better way of storing and archiving large quanities of photos, any suggestions please?

Answer 1

Bronxal:
There are several options. Since you are looking to be able to retrieve them with iPhoto at a later date you might give this a try.
1 - select multiple rolls until iPhoto says you've got maybe 550MB (if you're using CDs) or 6G (for DVDs).
2 - go to the Share->Burn Disk menu option and follow the instructions.
This will create a disk that can be mounted in iPhoto at a later time (See example) so you can view them, copy back to the library in case you need to print, etc. Once assured they are on the disk and OK you can delete the rolls from the library. One warning, currently iPhoto 5 has a bug that loses the keywords on these disks. It's a minor issue but just be forewarned.
That method seems to fit what you want to do. Now regarding your aging G4. Like me it could crash at any time. If the budget permits get an external Firewire HD for backup purposes. I've got one that is much bigger than my boot drive so I've cloned my system to it as well as backup my library and other important document on a daily or routine basis with Synk. If my boot drive gives up the ghost I can boot off the external until I get the boot drive fixed or replaced. FW drives are pretty affordable these days and are excellent insurance. I prefer the self powered so I can easily turn them off when I don't need it. It doesn't run all the time.
There are other methods of backing up just the jpg files. If that's what you're really interested in post back and we can discuss that. Good luck.