Posted by Jeff Rife on 04/06/06 10:15

Steve (jazzhunter@atcollectorAGAIN.org) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> >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.

It takes less time (and money, if you want bit-for-bit accuracy of all
your discs) to copy DVDs to a hard drive than to copy them to DVD-R. And,
you really only have to do it once.

> 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.

The more data you have, and the more critical it is, you can't afford *not*
to have some sort of on-line protection like RAID. If *I* can afford
three 250GB disks for a RAID-5 array for my own personal HD video editing
machine, then somebody doing that sort of thing for a living can afford
whatever size they need.

--
Jeff Rife | "What kind of universe is this where a man can't
| love his fake wife's mother's best friend?"
|
| -- Ned Dorsey, "Ned and Stacey"

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