Re: new confuser

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 10:27:41 MDT

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    Spike, if you're backing up more than the puny 4.7GB DVDs can hold, or
    working with a lot of data from video editing and such then a better
    idea might be to purchase a removable 80GB or larger hard drive. You can
    either get a frame for it to install into one of the front bays of your
    computer case, or get an external drive that you can attach via firewire
    or USB 2.0 (your new computer probably needs to have a firewire port
    anyway for connecting your digital videocamera). This will give you a
    lot more extra space to play with when editing large video files, and
    will also let you back up large amounts of data extremely quickly and
    without having to annoyingly swap out multiple DVD blanks.

    http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030411/index.html
    http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030116/index.html

    The main reason I could see to get a DVD burner at this point would only
    be if you want to make DVD movies to play in an external DVD player, or
    if you are going to be permanently archiving such a large amount of data
    over the upcoming years that it causes the cost of a DVD-R burner + a
    lot of DVD-R media (the cheapest media type) to eventually dip below the
    cost per GB of a series of cheap removable hard drives. There also is
    the stability issue... hard drives may only last 5 years, while DVD-Rs
    might last 50. But if you are mainly just doing temporary backups and
    don't plan to permanently archive anything then this isn't relevant.

    -- 
    Brian Atkins
    Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    http://www.singinst.org/
    


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