If someone that is buying hardware to record to HD media, and they are stupid enough to not back up, they deserve to lose their data.
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:02 PM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time. >> Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of >> data >> and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to >> hard drive starts to look better and better. >> > > I've had many hard drives fail, but not tapes, especially if we only use > them once, then archive them. Besides, when a hard drive fails, recovery is > tedious. When tapes fail, they don't fail entirely. Usually it's only one > point. No biggie to lose a few seconds of video by repairing the tape. A > failed hard drive will lose most, if not all of your data. > > When you record video on SD cards, is it always compressed? How about on HD > or SSD? > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
