Posted by Ken Moiarty on 03/24/06 22:38

"alanm" <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Ken Moiarty <kmoiarty35@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> > Well guys, I finally found my 'holy grail' robot to physically
>> > automate CD/DVD disc spanning for backup purposes. No I'm not talking
>> > about one of those office copier sized machines that only institutions
>> > can get enough use out of to get a return on their institutional sized
>> > investment. However, it does come from that "industrial/institutional"
>> > category. Yet it is the first of such products I've seen that a
> consumer
>> > like myself could talk myself into buying (admittedly, though, with my
>> > eyes closed) It's the MF
>> > Digital Baxter Automated CD DVD Duplicator. But it doesn't just
>> > duplicate or make disc copies. It's primarily what's they call an
>> > "autodisc loader". It can be used in any of many different ways,
>> > including spanning DVD discs for backup data. And the price is an
> almost
>> > down to earth $839.00. Admittedly more than most large hard drives are
>> > sold for today.
>>
>> Yep, so hard drives make more sense.
>>
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> Rod
>
> This does make sense.
>
> I'm amazed.
>

Glad to see someone else out there can see the forest for the trees, as it
were. :)

Admittedly this machine (or others like it) is neither a panacea for
everyone nor is it anywhere nearly practical enough as an image backup
system to seriously consider an alternative to backup hard drive. (My
apologies to some here for my clumsiness if I appeared to convey something
otherwise.) But it IS certainly something that should come in very handy;
if not merely for reasons similar (but, of course, reciprocal) to why
automatic disc changers in CD and DVD players have proven so popular.

Ken

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