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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Storage: DVD vs CD

2002-03-28 by Derek Clarke

On Thursday 28 Mar 2002 1:40 pm, Mitch Alland wrote:
> Martin:
> >I was looking at the issue of backup and archiving with CD's or
> >DVD's. Instead I got an External 160GB Maxtor hard drive on a
> >Firewire connection.
>
> That doesn't work for me as I need the portability of CDs or DVDs. 

The drive is a lot smaller than 246 CDs!

And 34 DVD-Rs take up quite a lot of space too.

> Also,
> it's safer to archive PS files to two DVDs or CDs, rather than one hard
> disk.

Conceded, which is why doing both is an even better idea!

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