Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:19:52PM -0600, RTaylor wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:25:44 +0100
>> Yeah. 4 of them are swappable {drawers}. I keep backups, libraries and so on on
>>disks {and dvds} I do video. Video requires lots of storage. {Most of my work
>>is widescreen... {animated... not anamorphic} It suffers when I dump it to
>>tape. HDs are relatively cheap.
>
>
> Are these hot swappable IDE disks? what sort of
> controller/drawer/whatever do you use for that? We have these huge tower
> cases at work and it would be cool if we had a cheap way to fill the 5
> 1/4" bays with cheap hotswappable IDE drives so we could use them for
> data RAIDs.
>
> -Eric Rz.
>
Eric,
I do this with 1394 hard drives. Supported by most laptops, low cost
to add 1394 to a desktop if the MB doesn't already have it, and fast
recovery when you need to get something from the backup.
Think 1394 or USB. Drives are cheap these days and store far more
than DVD. I do use DVDs and CDRW for backing up individual projects that
I know I'm finished with and want a smaller form of media to put int he
safe deposit box outside my house. (In case of fire, etc.)
Cheers,
Mark
