[access-uk] Re: purchasing dvd dule layer disks in bolke?
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:25:40 -0000
Hi Simon,
Given the volume of material you have, I wonder if another
solution might be to investigate one or more seriously high
quality hard drives. Western Digital, for example, have an
"Enterprise" range of drives which carry a 5 year warranty,
and as such are designed for use in Servers and such like
where they are in use 24/7. These drives also contain
features which compensate for a degree of data failure and
such like.
If you have XP Professional, you could even look into
setting up a Mirror drive. Easy enough to do, and ensures
that of one drive goes down, the other takes over. I have
the data drive on our server set up this way.
Just a thought, and one which could save you hours and hours
of copying work.
George.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of goshawk
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:34 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: purchasing dvd dule layer disks in
bolke?
I first thought about using zip disks, as then they could
easily be re-used, unfortunately, the ones I have seen only
take 750MB, so to backup something like 400 to 450GB on zip
disks would require around 540 disks for one backup, which
is why I decided on DVD disks, as I want to make at least 3
backups, possibly 4, which would be around 2200 750MB zip
disks.
Simon Wilkes,
e-mail or windows messenger,
dj.goshawk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
skype,
dj-goshawk
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Nutt <mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:57 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: purchasing dvd dule layer
disks in bolke?
Hi Kevin,
The only problem with this approach, is that you are
putting all your eggs in one basket. If that nice cheap
hard disk fails, and they do, you'll lose the whole darned
lot. Whereas, if a single DVD gets corrupted, you'd only
lose a small amount of your backups. So I am with Simon
here, in that you are best to archive onto DVD. I wouldn't
use DVD for regular backups, but for what Simon wants to do,
I think they are the best solution.
Simon, to answer your question, go to
http://www.blankdiscshop.co.ukk.
All the best
Steve
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd
Sent: 11 November 2007 10:47
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: purchasing dvd dule layer
disks in bolke?
Hi Simon.
Have you considered getting an external hard drive
instead? Will almost certainly be cheaper and may actually
last longer than the DVD's.
Kevin
E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [access-uk] purchasing dvd dule
layer disks in bolke?
hello list,
does anyone know of anywhere where I can
purchase large quantities of blank dvd disks, preferably the
duel layer 8GB type at a reasonable price?
I am looking to purchase a minimum of 200
disks at a time, possibly more, as I will be using them to
make several backups of my audio/video archive, which is
well over 400GB at the moment.
would prefer to purchase them from with in
the UK if possible.
thanks in advance for any help received.
Simon Wilkes,
e-mail or windows messenger,
dj.goshawk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
skype,
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