[access-uk] Re: purchasing dvd dule layer disks in bolke?
- From: "Kevin Lloyd" <kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Kevin Lloyd" <kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:59:43 -0000
Forgot one other great advantage of hard drive over DVD. If your collection of
music is ever growing and changing, with hard drives it's easy to keep
everything nice and organised in artist album order. Using DVD's, if you add
one more album right in the middle, it'll need a different method for sorting
out what you've added to your collection since last back up and saving it off
to disc. You'd then need to be very well organised to go and find the right
disc to get that album back if you'd accidentally deleted it from yor hard
drive.
None of this is insurmountable of course as you could search your hard drive
for files added since a certain date and organise your DVD's in date order but
don't really want to work that hard.
Kevin
E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Lloyd
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [access-uk] Re: purchasing dvd dule layer disks in bolke?
Agree to an extent Steve but you really need to buy good quality hard drives
and have a bit of a strategy. I have 3 hard drives. Two are connected
continuously, one to a laptop in the loft office and the other to a laptop in
the lounge. The third is used as a monthly back up so only connected to do
that and kept separately. Keeping these in sync is real easy using Karen's
Replicator.
Problems with DVD? Well, you could probably lose your hard drive before you
finish backing up 400 GB. If you don't lose the hard drive then could be your
sanity or in my case, my patience. Don't know where you'd find the time to
burn over 50 DVD's in one go.
It's true that using DVD may mean that you could lose just a part of your
data but do you really want to lose up to 8 GB of your precious data? I'd
suggest a back up strategy fitting for the amount of data you have and it's
importance.
Kevin
E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Nutt
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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Kevin Lloyd
Sent: 11 November 2007 10:47
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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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Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:38 AM
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,
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dj.goshawk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
skype,
dj-goshawk
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