Deaf Cat Wrote: > I have just started to rip EAC/FLAC to a big hdd, and thought that in a > few months time I would buy another -enough time to save up the pennys- > to act as a back up. > > However, I have been thinking, it will be cheaper, and maybe safer to > back up on DVDRW's. > > A Lite-On DVDRW caught my eye around £40, reviews seem ok, have heard > good things about Plextor's but these are roughly twice the price!! It will certainly be cheaper to backup to DVDR, and in fact that's what I do, as I already have a Plextor DVD writer. However: 1. A second hard disk will be more reliable. 2. Backing up a to a lot of DVDs does take time. Using a second hard disk, you could just set up a regular job to copy across any new files. Much more convenient.
If I didn't already have a DVD writer, I'd go for a second hard disk. As for the issue of whether to go for a Plextor rather than a cheaper brand. I don't know if my Plextor (a 712A) is typical of the whole range, but it's *extremely* fussy about media quality. Any attempt to use cheap media is simply not worth bothering with. Feed it genuine Taiyo Yuden or Mitsubishi-manufactured Verbatim (not CMC) and it produces fabulous quality burns. I'd bet that whatever DVD writer you get, it's still a good idea to use top quality media. And there's the rub: quality media is significantly more expensive: the last spindle of Taiyo Yuden I bought was about 45p per disc. So that makes it about 10p per GB. (cf. big hard disks: about 40p per GB). You should factor this into your decision. -- cliveb _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
