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Re: First DVD to go bad on me!

Posted by Steve on 04/05/06 22:36

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:35:04 -0400, Jeff Rife <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote:

>Steve (jazzhunter@atcollectorAGAIN.org) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>> >Or, at about $1.33/original disc, you can just put everything onto a hard
>> >drive and have all your DVDs instantly available, while the originals sit
>> >safely in their boxes.
>>
>> I used to think that, but in reality hard drives are VERY unreliable
>> if they have to be disconnected and reconnected. I've lost data on
>> Sata drives when the flimsy cable wasn't attached properly during
>> boot, IDE drives have failed due to static, both types have had data
>> corrupted when XP/W2K has mistakenly assigned the same drive letter to
>> two drives on first boot..I've losgt an entire editing project on a
>> USB external drive - I never found out why..the point is there are so
>> many potential ways to damage the data on a drive...
>
>Who cares? This is a *backup* of your DVDs. You have the originals
>safely tucked away, and can re-create the data on the hard drive any
>time you want.

But it's a lot of effort wasted.
>
>On the other hand, I haven't lost any data on *any* hard drive since
>I went to the policy of having data redundancy (RAID-1 or 5) and backing
>up truly critical data to another machine.

This is ofline storage, data shuttles shipped via mail etc. You can't
run everything in Raid pairs when dealing with humongous amounts of
data for full-time timeline editing.

... Steve ..

 

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