My only suggestion is to get two drives. I made the mistake of having one for all of my photos and had a narrow escape when it started to fail.
I suspect the CD player will be the limiting factor for transfer rate. Cheers, Dave > On Dec 9, 2016, at 4:38 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 > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

