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Jason,
As I said - "if your requirement is simply _backup_".
I _am_ prepared to put _backups_ on a non-RAID HDD... because _backup_
means "spare copy".
I was over-simplifying about the archive usage - the HDD is question
is,
itself, backed up, to an Application Service Provider with a full HSM
backup
offering that does a full delta-block backup... I'm guessing, however, that
this
would be out of Ray's price range if he's talking about buying a DVD-writer
:-)
The point was that hard disk space is, now, rather cheaper than tape,
or
blank optical media... so if the solution really is a _backup_, a copy to
another PC is actually the cheapest way to go. I know that a number of
people on
this group use _removable_ IDE drives for this purpose...
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Lee
[mailto:jasonjlee@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sat 06/07/2002 11:49
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: Re:
[ukha_d] Re: OT - DVD writers
Um, I would have said the same thing before I experienced
IBM
hard drives a
while ago.
As a cheap solution, yeah maybe. But
Hard
Disks fail..
I bet you don't put any data you couldn't live without
on
that system at
work, unless its raided?
Plus having a dvdwriter
has
side benefits.
The 'which disk is that on' I am working on.. Once
I've
got the projects
I've already started finished!
oh and double
sided
disks are around for dvd-r.. not sure of the
quality
though.
J
----- Original Message
-----
From:
"mark_harrison_uk1" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
To:
<ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 11:43
AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT - DVD writers
Ray,
If you
requirement is simply backup for that kind of data volume,
there's a
more
cost-effective, and fast solution than either you
propose.
A
second
PC (second-hand, a P2 would be fine), with a, say, 60Gb HDD
in it, a
couple
of network cards and a crossover cable - and lo, your
ideal backup
solution
for about £200.
It's what I do at home for backup... it's also what
we
now do at work
for long-term archiving of the digital images for the
comet
website!
The cost equation of hardware was about the same, but once you
took
into account the indexing problem (which CD is that photo on)...
it
became an obvious thing to
do.
Regards,
Mark
--- In ukha_d@y..., "Ray
Barnett" <lists@t...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wanted
a
quick bit of advice since I gather some people here
use them a
>
fair
bit...
>
> I urgently need to implement a backup system capable
of
looking
after my
> rapidly growing 20GBs of digital
photos.
>
> Current favourites are a DVD writer or an Onstream
60GB tape thingy.
> However, I've just confused myself over the
compatibilities of the
various
> DVD writers. Just how compatible
is
a DVD-R writer, and is it a
dead duck
> now that DVD+R is getting
more popular?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray
Barnett.
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