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I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with DVD's,
will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any drivers?


Tony. . .

"Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
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>I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with
>DVD's, will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any
>drivers?
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>
> Tony. . .
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Blue Ray is pretty expensive...
if you have a lot of stuff to back up...it may be cheaper and easier to buy
an external harddrive.

For the price of Blue Ray...you could probably buy *two* external HD's and
back up to both of them
and still have change left over!

Honestly, Philo is right. External eSATA, USB or FireWire make a lot more
sense. Even for offsite - just ship the drives off in rotation. Buy Blu-Ray
if you want to play BluRay DVDs. But buy HDs for backup.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel


"Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
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>I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with
>DVD's, will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any
>drivers?
>
>
> Tony. . .
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Charlie,
I am using a network hard disk for backup.
A little slow, but it does the job nicely.
Mine is a Conceptronic one:
http://www.conceptronic.net/site/des...7&Prod=CHD3LAN
And you can plug it to any ethernet female connector everywhere you go.
I also has an usb connector for direct PC connection.
Carlos

"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

> Honestly, Philo is right. External eSATA, USB or FireWire make a lot more
> sense. Even for offsite - just ship the drives off in rotation. Buy Blu-Ray
> if you want to play BluRay DVDs. But buy HDs for backup.
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>
>
> "Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> >I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with
> >DVD's, will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any
> >drivers?
> >
> >
> > Tony. . .
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> >
> >
>

A good solution. I used to install tape drives on every server. These days I
use hard disks exclusively. (I currently use an iSCSI SAN as a shared
solution, but some day I'm going to have to let them have it back. Too bad,
I LOVE my EqualLogic SAN.
http://www.equallogic.com/products/view.aspx?id=1989 )

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel


"Carlos" <> wrote in message
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> Charlie,
> I am using a network hard disk for backup.
> A little slow, but it does the job nicely.
> Mine is a Conceptronic one:
> http://www.conceptronic.net/site/des...7&Prod=CHD3LAN
> And you can plug it to any ethernet female connector everywhere you go.
> I also has an usb connector for direct PC connection.
> Carlos
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
>> Honestly, Philo is right. External eSATA, USB or FireWire make a lot more
>> sense. Even for offsite - just ship the drives off in rotation. Buy
>> Blu-Ray
>> if you want to play BluRay DVDs. But buy HDs for backup.
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>>
>>
>> "Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> >I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with
>> >DVD's, will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any
>> >drivers?
>> >
>> >
>> > Tony. . .
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>

I work with a total of 5 external Hd, both USB and Firewire, and they are
really the solution for big data storage and backup.
You have take into consideration that with external disk's you would have
all your material in one or two external drives and this would be of great
help in searching and so on. I used to store on RW Dvd's and it was always a
hassle to go through a couple of hundred to find some little file that was
stored 6 or 10 months ago.
BluRay is great technology but still extremely expensive considering the
storage space you would have with a good external drive.

Andy



"Charlie Russel - MVP" <> ha scritto nel
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> Honestly, Philo is right. External eSATA, USB or FireWire make a lot more
> sense. Even for offsite - just ship the drives off in rotation. Buy
> Blu-Ray if you want to play BluRay DVDs. But buy HDs for backup.
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>
>
> "Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with
>>DVD's, will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any
>>drivers?
>>
>>
>> Tony. . .
>>
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>>
>

Many thanks to all!

This wasn't originally my idea - a friend-of-a-friend asked me and I told
him I usually didn't recommend saving the money when new technology was
concerned - as long as you would be needing the new technology within a
reasonably short time-frame.

The trouble with him, though, is that I don't think he is likely to store
all those HD's away from the office, so I'll probably leave him to make his
own mind up on the subject.

Then one of my own DVD Rom's started whining a bit, I got curious. My B/U
needs are modest, I could still safe-copy most of my personal data onto
three old Floppies, so BlueRay can definitely wait. The trouble with burning
CD's is mostly the inconvenience, I sure miss Nero's InCD functionality!!!


Tony. . .


"Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with
>DVD's, will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any
>drivers?
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
>

You can get almost 9GB of data files on a DL DVD right now. Unless you
are backing up a ton of music files, uncompressed video files or making
an image of your hard disk, why would you need Blu-Ray or HD-DVD to back
up data? Maybe in a few years, as files get more and more bloated, it
will be needed, but not at the moment. Besides, the HD burners are still
outrageously priced, as is the blank media.

JB

Tony Sperling wrote:
> Many thanks to all!
>
> This wasn't originally my idea - a friend-of-a-friend asked me and I told
> him I usually didn't recommend saving the money when new technology was
> concerned - as long as you would be needing the new technology within a
> reasonably short time-frame.
>
> The trouble with him, though, is that I don't think he is likely to store
> all those HD's away from the office, so I'll probably leave him to make his
> own mind up on the subject.
>
> Then one of my own DVD Rom's started whining a bit, I got curious. My B/U
> needs are modest, I could still safe-copy most of my personal data onto
> three old Floppies, so BlueRay can definitely wait. The trouble with burning
> CD's is mostly the inconvenience, I sure miss Nero's InCD functionality!!!
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with
>> DVD's, will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any
>> drivers?
>>
>>
>> Tony. . .
>>
>>
>>
>
>

As I said, for me it CAN wait - I have tons of ISO's (for various OS's on
four different dual-booting machines), that would be nice to keep in one
place for a while, but I don't really NEED to back them up - I'm on 10Mb/s
broadband! I'm not buying USB HD's for the sole purpose of doing that. If
BR's were poised to take over the market within the next year, I would
consider one of those instead of buying yet another 'out-of-time' DVD
(Eight, are quite enough as it is!).

As for that 'other' guy, I'll be happy to let him make up his own mind
wether he prefers carrying a stack of HD's/DVD's or BR's with him.

The only really important issue, is if any of the current standard B/U app's
can handle BlueRay, out of the box, or if you will be needing drivers and
stuff that your OS will have to support as well?


Tony. . .


"jabloomf1230" <> wrote in message
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> You can get almost 9GB of data files on a DL DVD right now. Unless you are
> backing up a ton of music files, uncompressed video files or making an
> image of your hard disk, why would you need Blu-Ray or HD-DVD to back up
> data? Maybe in a few years, as files get more and more bloated, it will be
> needed, but not at the moment. Besides, the HD burners are still
> outrageously priced, as is the blank media.
>
> JB
>
> Tony Sperling wrote:
>> Many thanks to all!
>>
>> This wasn't originally my idea - a friend-of-a-friend asked me and I told
>> him I usually didn't recommend saving the money when new technology was
>> concerned - as long as you would be needing the new technology within a
>> reasonably short time-frame.
>>
>> The trouble with him, though, is that I don't think he is likely to store
>> all those HD's away from the office, so I'll probably leave him to make
>> his own mind up on the subject.
>>
>> Then one of my own DVD Rom's started whining a bit, I got curious. My B/U
>> needs are modest, I could still safe-copy most of my personal data onto
>> three old Floppies, so BlueRay can definitely wait. The trouble with
>> burning CD's is mostly the inconvenience, I sure miss Nero's InCD
>> functionality!!!
>>
>>
>> Tony. . .
>>
>>
>> "Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> I may need a new optical drive soon - all my machines are filled with
>>> DVD's, will this make any sense and is it connecting to IDE without any
>>> drivers?
>>>
>>>
>>> Tony. . .
>>>
>>>
>>>
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