Burning DVDs - advice

Post by **super8man** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:54 pm

Actually, in the computer environment, you simply have external hard drives for archiving...the enclosures (with fan) are about $30 now (USB2.0) and the 7200RPM drives are about $99 for $120GB...Again, there is no limit on storage and they are hotswappable etc.

No, the standalone decks are nice for specific purposes but the idea of losing 60-70 masters somewhere inside that unit bothers me...with an external HD dedicated to whatever you desire, there is always a chance you can recover files quite well...I had one HD start CLICKING on me with deathly sounds. Sure enough, got another hard drive, transferred all the data but one measly OS file, and I was off and running again. I would hate to think what would happen on a dedicated unit with proprietary file management/OS operation...

Get a PC.

Best,
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Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:05 pm

Most of the masters I have tape backups of. All of the masters have one DVD back up, (although that means no changes of any kind could be made)

Everytime a computer operating system upgrades, won't that potentially wreak havoc on an older operating system that the older hardrive used?

Post by **super8man** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:20 pm

NOPE...that's why I said USB2.0 enclosures...you just plug these babies in anytime. There is an older FAT32 file system compared to current NTFS but most everything now is NTFS...and Fat32 is no problem either...reads normally too. There was also FAT16 and computers still read those too. Its all good!