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Posted by Ken Maltby on 01/16/81 11:52
"John" <cow@chicken.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:27:45 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs
> <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
>
>> You can get a 300GB hard drive these days for $100.
>>
>> That's like two 100 packs of CD-R media back when it first came out
>>(price wise).
>>
>> Far more reliable.. immediately available storage, and a dump so
>>huge that even your porn lovin' ass won't fill it up too quickly...
>
> The HD drive is a good idea but I tend to think that hard drives are
> more prone to failure.
>
Not really, when off line the hard drive is much easier to
store, in a manner that keeps the data unaffected and totally
retrievable. Where as DVDs can be easily scratched, even
if they don't succumb to "Dye Rot". If you were able to
make "pressed DVDs" you might have a point, but there is
no data that burned dye DVDs last as long as magnetic tape
much less magnetic disks.
For repeated random use, the one hard drive beats 70 DVDs
any day.
>If I was to buy one hard drive to store all my multimedia files on
> (most of which are news, sports and documentaries particularly
> wildlife, so not much porn except for Monkeys or Tigers mating!) I
> would also have to buy a second HD that the first would be backed up
> to.
>
Not so bad an idea if you really want to insure their long term
survival. (Some call that approach a RAID array) One thing
you will find is that it takes a lot less time to backup to another
hard drive than to DVDs. (Even if you don't count the time
needed to change out those 70 disks.)
> With DVD-R discs, I already have a DVD-R/RW drive to make use of, and
> the media does seem to be pretty cheap. 6 or 7 for a pack of 25 TY
> 16x discs, or perhaps just 4 or 5 for 25 Ritek 16x ones.
>
> So what is that? I can't remember how many GB of a DVD disc is usable?
> Say about 4.3GB? 4.3GB x 25 = 107.5GB for only 4 to 7. That's not
> too bad IMHO and very cheap.
>
> If you got a spindle of 50 discs you would save even more. 13-50 for
> TY 16x DVD-Rs. 7.50 to 9 for 50 Ritek 16x Discs or 9.50 for 50
> Ricoh FujiFilm 16x discs which seem to be quite reliable as well and
> get good reviews.
>
> If I was to get another SATA Hard Drive to put in my system, I'm not
> sure that my system can accept another one? I am pretty sure there is
> only one slot for one SATA drive which is what is in it now along with
> two ATA drives. I believe that the SATA Controller cards are quite
> expensive as well.
>
As far as I know there are no SATA controllers that only do one
drive. (Wait I think there was one VIA chip.) What motherboard
do you have? SATA Controller cards start around $20.
> I think the next time I buy a new Hard Drive will be for my next
> system which will probably be sometime in late 2007 or early 2008.
>
> John
>
>
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