Trade-offs may apply:
If you copy your entire image catalog to the external drive, they're all
in one place that becomes a possible single point of failure. If you
spread your catalog across a number of thumb drives, you multiply the
possibility of having one of them fail.
Maybe your best choice is to copy the CDs to the external drive & then
duplicate them onto a bunch of thumb drives so that you have two copies
of your "backup".
And as has been pointed out here many times before, it's not really a
backup until you have a copy of it off site.
On 12/8/2016 11:27 AM, Zos Xavius wrote:
The CD is going to be slower than any drive you connect it to. Don't
worry about rpms. Most externals are 5400 anyways. You'll spend a
premium to get a 7200rpm drive that is external and it won't really
gain you much in transfer speed though your random seek times will
improve. Something that doesn't matter when transferring large files
really.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:09 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
thanks, never thought to look at rpm's
Dave
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
Almost certainly better transfer rate to an external skinny
drive. Make sure it’s a 7200 rpm Seagate. And thumb drives seem
to fail frequently. At least in my experience, although that’s
based on use of recycled thumb drives that I’ve gotten at press
conferences.
Paul
On Dec 8, 2016, at 10:38 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
I have decided, now that i have the time, to transfer all of my CD and
DVD back up photo disks to an external HD, I need a new one anyway and
Staples has a nice Seagate 2tb on sale. I also have a number of 32 gig
thumb drives i thought might also do the trick. Just curious would the
transfer rate be better from the CD player to externals as opposed to
thumb drives.?
Dave
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