Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:19:52PM -0600, RTaylor
wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:25:44 +0100
Yeah. 4 of them are swappable {drawers}. I keep backups, libraries and so on on
disks {and dvds} I do video. Video requires lots of storage. {Most of my work
is widescreen... {animated... not anamorphic} It suffers when I dump it to
tape. HDs are relatively cheap.
Are these hot swappable IDE disks? what sort of
controller/drawer/whatever do you use for that? We have these huge tower
cases at work and it would be cool if we had a cheap way to fill the 5
1/4" bays with cheap hotswappable IDE drives so we could use them for
data RAIDs.
-Eric Rz.
Eric,
I do this with 1394 hard drives. Supported by most laptops, low cost
to add 1394 to a desktop if the MB doesn't already have it, and fast
recovery when you need to get something from the backup.
Think 1394 or USB. Drives are cheap these days and store far more
than DVD. I do use DVDs and CDRW for backing up individual projects that
I know I'm finished with and want a smaller form of media to put int he
safe deposit box outside my house. (In case of fire, etc.)
Cheers,
Mark