Posted by Jeff Rife on 04/05/06 20:35

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.

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.

--
Jeff Rife | "Wheel of morality,
| Turn, turn, turn.
| Tell us the lesson
| That we should learn"
| -- Yakko, "Animaniacs"

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