Very much! I had considered some type of external drive but because of our schedule we would need more than one. But if they are that inexpensive we could use a couple of them and still come out cheaper than buying DVD drives and the media. Thanks for the tip!
Beth > ---------- > From: Bryan Forrest > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2003 3:53 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: DVD Drive info > > I highly recommend a small Firewire hard drive for just such occasions. > OtherWorld Computing has 20GB pocket hard drives for about $170. Get > the 5400 rpm drive, and make sure it has the Oxford 911 chipset. You > might also call MacTown to see what kind of drives they might have and > their prices. > > The benefits of these drives are speed, simplicity and size. They are > much faster than burning data to DVDs, they are very compact, and all > you have to do is plug them in and they show up on your desktop just > like any other hard drive. If you go the DVD route, you will be looking > at $3-5 per DVD. Transfer rates will be in the neighborhood of 2-3 > MB/second and you can only use each disk once. Firewire hard drives > will transfer 10-20 MB per second, making quick work of large files, > and just like other hard drives, it's completely reusable - just drag > old files to the trash when you're done with them. > > DVD-R is a fun technology for making movies, or possibly for long time > data archival, but it's not really ideal for data transfers. > > Hope this helps! > > Bryan C. Forrest > Macintosh Specialist > LifeNet > http://www.lifenet.org > > > On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 03:16 PM, Beth Ernst wrote: > > > A couple of questions about DVD drives. > > > > I have a G4 800 MHz with a CD drive and another G4 w/mirror doors that > > only has a CD drive as well. At the time we purchased these machines > > we didn't see a need for DVD. Now we'd like to use DVD to transfer > > large files (approx. 1- 2GB) between two locations. We normally send > > our publications to our pre-press department over our T-1 connection, > > but there has been the occasional time that the line has been down and > > we are looking at a backup plan in the event it is down for a long or > > crucial time period. Most of our publications will fit on a CD, but I > > have a couple in excess of 1GB. Prior to getting our T-1 we used JAZ > > drives but they are a rather unreliable media. > > > > What I wondering is can we replace the existing CD drives on these > > machines with internal DVDs? > > > > Do they have to be Apple DVD drives? (I understand that Apple's > > software will not work with external drives so I wasn't sure about > > internal. ) > > > > If the drives can be replaced with internal drives what are some good > > ones to look at? > > > > Is there a better, less expensive option, I'm not aware of to transfer > > files of this size? > > > > Thanks! > > Beth > > > > > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be June 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be June 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
