Of course the upside to using CDs is that you are not 'putting all your eggs in one basket'.
Personally I burn 2 master CDs, one of which I never access unless I have to use it to create a new master, if the first has failed. I'd consider a HDD as an archive in a RAID system but still prefer to use CD. Karl. > Dear Mike and others > > At �1 per gig I would have thought Hard Drives were a real rival to > CDs. For a start I always have spare unused space when burning CDs. > They need handling as I get them out and put them back on a machine. To > burn a CD slowly and safely takes about 17 minutes. To copy via > firewire from HD to HD takes much less time. Since my stack of Kodak > CDs at 17p each, reckoned to be the best by many, is dwindling fast I > am seriously looking at master archives on HD. > > Obviously the risk of theft of a laptop when on a foreign trip is very > real. Who wants to steal exposed film for instance? Does anyone have > experience of shipping HDs via DHL? > > Yours > > Bob =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
