Good points Brook. I was thinking alternately of just buying a new drive as I need it. And they'll probably just continue going down in price.
-- Enric --- In [email protected], "Brook Hinton" <bhin...@...> wrote: > > Speed is the issue with backing up as data to DV. Its going to take an hour > for every 17 gigs. It also locks you into a proprietary system for dumping > and recovering. Another minus: DV tapes are relatively fragile and > definitely not archival. For data backup I'd give them a three year life at > maximum. > > Drive space is cheap these days. Most people I know are just dedicating > external drives for video backup. You can buy an external 1 TB MyBook with > firewire, esata AND usb2 for $150 - that's the cost or 50 low end DV tapes, > making the drive about the same cost per gig (cheaper if you aren't > compressing the tape backups). .Also not archival - all drives fail > (EVERYTHING fails), but easier to manage a few large capacity drives than > boatloads of tape for cloning/refreshing every few years. And much much much > much faster. > > > Brook > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
