Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] sorta OT: buying external scsi harddrive online
From: abridge at dcn.org (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sat Sep 25 19:21:27 2004

On 5/15/04 <paul@paulhardycarter.com (Paul Hardy Carter)> thoughtfully wrote:

>
>Do you have a CD burner in your computer? If so, that's the way to go. Just 
>by
>a bulk pack of CD-Rs, work out a decent cataloging system, and start 
>burning.
>Even if you don't have a built-in burner you'll probably find buying a new
>computer with a burner is cheaper than getting involved with a RAID system.
>
>P.

If you buy something on the order of a 200 GB hard drive you pay less than 
$1/GB
which is EXTREMELY cost effective with CD-Rs and I'll bet just as archival.
Perhaps more so. It has been a LONG time since I've had a hard drive fail
whereas I have CD failures.

Adam



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