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What is faster to write with: a DVD burner or Hard drive?
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| Paul S. 2004-06-26, 2:36 pm |
| Hi,
I am wondering which type of external storage device would be best for
backing-up around 4Gigs of data. Should I be looking at, say, a USB 2.0
external hard drive, or, a USB 2.0 DVD burner?
What is DVD capacity?
Do DVDs write faster than my 2 years old DVD RW burner?
ALso, if I want to do a full back-up of EVERYThing, and I know the DVD
doesn't have the capacity for this task, but, do I just copy, using the
wWindows file explorer, the entire C and D drive (I gave my disk
partitioned in to a C and D drive) and then paste it into the extternal
hardrive?
Or, are there more effective ways to back up the system in such a way
that if my hard drive dies I have a complete replica, that I can boot
from (?) , on another drive.
Any help or advice would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Paul
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| Kay Archer 2004-06-26, 2:36 pm |
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"Paul S." <pauls@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:10dklv0jds4lu9a@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi,
> I am wondering which type of external storage device would be best for
> backing-up around 4Gigs of data. Should I be looking at, say, a USB 2.0
> external hard drive, or, a USB 2.0 DVD burner?
>
The answer to your subject question is a hard drive is faster, but both will
be limited by the USB connection. A Firewire connection would be faster.
> What is DVD capacity?
>
Currently 4.7 gig, 9.4 gig (dual layer) recorders may be available within
the next year or so (bleeding edge technology=$$$$).
> Do DVDs write faster than my 2 years old DVD RW burner?
>
Look at the box, your 2 year old may be a 2x speed and newer drives are 12x
(Plextor PX712A for example).
> ALso, if I want to do a full back-up of EVERYThing, and I know the DVD
> doesn't have the capacity for this task, but, do I just copy, using the
> wWindows file explorer, the entire C and D drive (I gave my disk
> partitioned in to a C and D drive) and then paste it into the extternal
> hardrive?
>
Yes, it should have its own drive letter.
> Or, are there more effective ways to back up the system in such a way
> that if my hard drive dies I have a complete replica, that I can boot
> from (?) , on another drive.
>
Ghosting or mirroring (think RAID) is the only way to create a bootable
backup.
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| Paul S. 2004-06-26, 2:36 pm |
| Kay Archer wrote:
> "Paul S." <pauls@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:10dklv0jds4lu9a@corp.supernews.com...
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> The answer to your subject question is a hard drive is faster, but both will
> be limited by the USB connection. A Firewire connection would be faster.
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> Currently 4.7 gig, 9.4 gig (dual layer) recorders may be available within
> the next year or so (bleeding edge technology=$$$$).
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> Look at the box, your 2 year old may be a 2x speed and newer drives are 12x
> (Plextor PX712A for example).
|||||||||||| Oops, I meant to ask whether the DVD RW drives burn data at
a rate |||||||||||| faster than my two year old CD RW drive.
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> Yes, it should have its own drive letter.
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> Ghosting or mirroring (think RAID) is the only way to create a bootable
> backup.
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| Kay Archer 2004-06-26, 2:36 pm |
| > >>Do DVDs write faster than my 2 years old DVD RW burner?[vbcol=seagreen]
12x[vbcol=seagreen]
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> |||||||||||| Oops, I meant to ask whether the DVD RW drives burn data at
> a rate |||||||||||| faster than my two year old CD RW drive.
Look at the MB/s (megabytes per second). A 4X DVD can burn a full disk
(4.7gig) in about 15 minutes.
If you are buring CD-RW disks in the same drive it will be about 24x, your
two year old burner could be the same speed.
http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=16638
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