[DM-MUG] Burning CDs & DVDs - burning

Fri Apr 21 12:59:54 CDT 2006

I would not say that anything with a hard drive is reliable, especially
an external hard drive.  I would say that hard drives are the most
reliable if they are located within a fault tolerance RAID array:
minimum of two drives with redundancy.

For a low cost option you may be able to add a RAID adapter card to your
PowerMac and utilize ATA-133 hard drives since they are cheaper. 

Here is an inexpensive hardware RAID card for the PowerMac.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816123007

Staples has a deal going right now for 300GB ATA-133 drives with 16MB
cashes for $99 bucks.

http://staples.shoplocal.com/staples/default.aspx?action=browsepagesingle&storeid=2278938&rapid=258779&pagenumber=2

So it appears that the hardware cost .could be about $300 for a 300GB
Fault Tolerant RAID Setup.

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:37 -0500, Travis Ballstadt wrote:
> I'd agree with Darcy.  CompUSA just had a 250GB AcomData firewire
> drive on sale last week for $99 after rebates.  I've found them to be
> pretty reliable under heavy use (video editing).  The one I opened up
> had a Seagate hard drive in it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 21, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Darcy Baston wrote:
> 
> > I use iVew Media for finding dupes. It can backup to fixed and
> > removeable media but I don't know if it will do spanning and
> > maximize
> > space consumption while spanning.
> > 
> > 
> > Instead of a bunch of DVDs which are are even more at risk of losing
> > data as CDs (media size), why not get an external hard drive or a
> > spare internal one if you have a tower? I did the jump from CD to
> > DVD
> > and still got some data corruption even when the disc was verified
> > after burning.
> > 
> > 
> > I backup using two hard drives now. Should one die, the other has
> > the same data.
> > 
> > 
> > On 4/21/06, Victoria L. Herring <vlherring at herringlaw.com> wrote:
> > > >       I need to do a rather massive burning job [moving photo
> > > > images from CD to harddrive then burning to archival DVDs] and
> > > > in the
> > > > past I've had trouble using the OSX Burn feature [so far tho
> > > > that is
> > > > all I've needed] but do have Toast 6 and seem to recall that
> > > > that
> > > > program would allow moving the images all from CD to the
> > > > harddrive
> > > > and then burning them to the DVDs en masse, where it would stop
> > > > at
> > > > the end of the DVD space and ask for another DVD to be put
> > > > in....is
> > > > that right or is there a better program?  I'd like to streamline
> > > > the
> > > > process as much as possible so I don't need to watch over it as
> > > > it
> > > > goes along.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > One person did suggest an easy answer, which might be to just copy
> > > over X CDs into folder and then burn the folder onto DVDs since
> > > they'd be about right size in bulk.  But on thinking this through,
> > > that's not going to accomplish what I want to accomplish.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I have about 80 CDs and DVDs nonarchival in nature of photos that
> > > i
> > > want to put on Archival disks.  But the complicating problem is
> > > that
> > > amongst those are 8-9 duplicate sets = being so cautious over time
> > > I
> > > have backed up or copied Picture X some 8-9 times, so that what I
> > > do
> > > want to do is some cleaning out and cleansing...I can use TidyUp
> > > or
> > > other programs to find dups and then delete some and THEN do the
> > > backing up to archival, but the same Q then presents itself, how
> > > can
> > > I put all the to-be-burned items in one folder and then have a
> > > program know enough to fill up ARchival disk 1 and then call for
> > > Disk
> > > 2 and then 3 etc = so that I don't have to guess at how many
> > > photos
> > > it will take to fill up one?  Some pics are going to be 1mb and
> > > some
> > > 40mb, depending, so I can't just assume it'll take so many pics to
> > > do
> > > this.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I thought Toast allowed you to just put all stuff in its window
> > > and
> > > it'd burn what it needed to on Disk 1 and then call out for Disk
> > > 2,
> > > but I tried that recently and it didn't work.  Maybe I did it
> > > wrong,
> > > maybe it needs Toast 7...is there any other program?  OSX Burn
> > > doesn't do it....as far as I know.
> > > --
> > > Victoria L. Herring, Attorney, <http://www.HerringLaw.com>  [newly
> > > redesigned]
> > > Travel research,  planning & photography,
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> > > Photographs now at Borders Cafe [West Des Moines, Iowa] in
> > > three-person show, "Perspectives" and for sale at
> > > www.buyiowaart.com.
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