for all you tech heads
#1
Posted 10 October 2007 - 02:33 pm
Want to archive photos, music & some ezines to free up hard drive on PC ( which is only 80GB)
Cant afford much, consered more with longevity than capacity (tho I guess I should burn 'em all to CD)
Was looking at something like this
http://www.pcworld.c...p;category_oid=
To do: Educate homo sap nav system to operate twisty + grabby things/ get ear plugs
Remember every driver is a deaf myoptic twat who is out to kill you, ALWAYS assume they are going to do THE most f*cking DUMBASS, STUPID manouver possible, at the worst possible moment; get past, and get past quick
#2
Posted 10 October 2007 - 03:04 pm
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#3
Posted 10 October 2007 - 03:40 pm
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#4 Guest_Favs_*
Posted 10 October 2007 - 04:19 pm
I'm with Pict's brother on this subject. As a former welder and now Head of IT & Computing for the past 9 years, I have a strong distrust of most storage devices having had them cease to function for any and no reason, including USB mass storage devices. DVDs are at least safe from virus attacks. IMHO I recommend two copies of each DVD-one to use and one as backup. Mind you I used to be quite paranoid about losing irreplacable files - now I'm much worse.
#5
Posted 10 October 2007 - 04:29 pm
#6
Posted 10 October 2007 - 04:47 pm
starting to sound like I'm better of getting DVD writer (only got reader on pc, it is 'old' pc by modern standards!) and burning to discs.....
so any recommendations on external DVD writers then
(External unit prob easier than faffing around with riping a 5yr old pc apart and replacing its innards I'm guessing)
To do: Educate homo sap nav system to operate twisty + grabby things/ get ear plugs
Remember every driver is a deaf myoptic twat who is out to kill you, ALWAYS assume they are going to do THE most f*cking DUMBASS, STUPID manouver possible, at the worst possible moment; get past, and get past quick
#7
Posted 10 October 2007 - 05:21 pm
apparently western digital is the way to go. but not the MyBook... app not so good either
handiest is getting an external USB HDbracket where you can slide in any harddisk.
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#8
Posted 10 October 2007 - 05:55 pm
apparently western digital is the way to go. but not the MyBook... app not so good either
handiest is getting an external USB HDbracket where you can slide in any harddisk.
Yamaha XT660Z Ténéré '08 + Yamaha TRX850 '97
I'll let go of my throttle when they pry it from my cold, dead hands...
#9
Posted 10 October 2007 - 06:36 pm
If you go for an external DVD writer you're looking at £30-50 for the drive and media is pretty cheap so you can easily make multiple copies. Decent internal drives are about half the price. I'd reccomend Phillips as my DVR110 has bee very reliable and lasted a lot longer than my previous Liteon drive.
I personally keep 2 hard drives in the PC and use the shareware version of Syncback to backup my data to the second hard drive. Yes I know I could loose both drives but that would probably mean my house had burned down in which case I'd have other things to wory about. I used to occasionally copy all my photos (only data I'd really miss if I lost my system) to my iPod but unfortunatly my music and photos have now exceeded 40GB so I now make the occasional DVD copy.
I've got internal ones which are great, I can easily swap either of my hard drives. Great for system rebuilds.
Edited by ChrisG, 10 October 2007 - 06:38 pm.
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#10
Posted 10 October 2007 - 07:02 pm
If you go for an external DVD writer you're looking at £30-50 for the drive and media is pretty cheap so you can easily make multiple copies. Decent internal drives are about half the price. I'd reccomend Phillips as my DVR110 has bee very reliable and lasted a lot longer than my previous Liteon drive.
I personally keep 2 hard drives in the PC and use the shareware version of Syncback to backup my data to the second hard drive. Yes I know I could loose both drives but that would probably mean my house had burned down in which case I'd have other things to wory about. I used to occasionally copy all my photos (only data I'd really miss if I lost my system) to my iPod but unfortunatly my music and photos have now exceeded 40GB so I now make the occasional DVD copy. My mate did that in the early days of MP3 etc, all his music on hard drive, sold whole CD collection, was great until MP£ broke & hard drive was corrupted. Lost the lotI've got internal ones which are great, I can easily swap either of my hard drives. Great for system rebuilds. Waaayy to much effort & time & arsing around fer me
To do: Educate homo sap nav system to operate twisty + grabby things/ get ear plugs
Remember every driver is a deaf myoptic twat who is out to kill you, ALWAYS assume they are going to do THE most f*cking DUMBASS, STUPID manouver possible, at the worst possible moment; get past, and get past quick
#11
Posted 10 October 2007 - 08:14 pm
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#12
Posted 10 October 2007 - 08:33 pm
threw caddy into pcworld (which to you tech lot is probably as bad as you lot getting bike stuff in Hellfords is to me!!) and got this...
http://www.pcworld.c...p;category_oid=
To do: Educate homo sap nav system to operate twisty + grabby things/ get ear plugs
Remember every driver is a deaf myoptic twat who is out to kill you, ALWAYS assume they are going to do THE most f*cking DUMBASS, STUPID manouver possible, at the worst possible moment; get past, and get past quick
#13 Guest_Favs_*
Posted 11 October 2007 - 07:25 am
http://www.pcworld.c...p;category_oid=
Yup thats PCW for you, their business branch PCWB is not a lot different.
#14 Guest_Naboki_*
Posted 11 October 2007 - 07:27 am
Hope this helps
Marius
#15
Posted 11 October 2007 - 07:31 am
Well, yes, but in the case of good ones and properly stored (that's what the 2nd set is for), are you going to live that long?
Trust me, it doesn't take that. Unfortunately, been there, seen it happening. All it takes is a little insidious failure of the IDE controller, causing small random corruption in the data stream. By the time the problem became apparent, I had redundant copies of junk.
To be honest though, I only saw this happening once in 10 years, because usually the IDE controller died faster, at the most ruining only one HDD or the data on it.
#16 Guest_erdferkel_*
Posted 11 October 2007 - 12:19 pm
ah yes, i plan to be immortal. so far - so good.
time to get the coat then?
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#17 Guest_Favs_*
Posted 11 October 2007 - 02:55 pm
Trust me, it doesn't take that. Unfortunately, been there, seen it happening. All it takes is a little insidious failure of the IDE controller, causing small random corruption in the data stream. By the time the problem became apparent, I had redundant copies of junk.
To be honest though, I only saw this happening once in 10 years, because usually the IDE controller died faster, at the most ruining only one HDD or the data on it.
How about persistant little b'strds who try format mbr after they have tried FBI & Pentagon for a laugh (hmm, the FBI & Pentagon did take one of them on a free visit to the states tho)
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