why do you need four hard drives?

(all:sorts - "makes alot of money", Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:08, archived)

I have about 40 days of video.
Legal, non copyrighted video, of course.

You should have seen what happened when I backed it all up to DVD-R (took about 100 discs)!
( fool_on_the_hill, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:09, archived)

the funniest thing is you'll have to burn it all again
in two years.
( lazygamer - pratting around up to and including, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:11, archived)

Why?

( fool_on_the_hill, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:15, archived)

dvd-rs are kind of volatile.
depending what type you burnt and where you store them, the discs can be useless within 3 years.

although its down to the dyes the discs have on their base
( lazygamer - pratting around up to and including, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:17, archived)

I did not know that.
But in two years we'll have much higher capacity discs and faster burners, so it won't take two days of my life to do a back-up next time.
( fool_on_the_hill, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:20, archived)

hoorah for Blu-ray.
Boorah for it costing a fortune at the moment.
( lazygamer - pratting around up to and including, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:21, archived)

i'm getting a 300gig drive this week
for 40 quid. sweeet :D
(GoldenFanjita, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:12, archived)

what make is that?

(all:sorts - "makes alot of money", Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:13, archived)

Breville.

( lazygamer - pratting around up to and including, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:13, archived)

hahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I dont know why exactly I found that reply so funny, but...
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
( Damocles wants to poke you with his big sword, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:49, archived)

maxtor

(GoldenFanjita, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:13, archived)

I've got one of them. Tasty.

( collapsibletank is in, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:39, archived)

Where from
and are there more?
( We are the lemon will actively sabotage every good thing in my life, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:13, archived)

there's two
but my mate is having the other
(GoldenFanjita, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:14, archived)

That's good
Assuming the make is decent. Mine have cost the best part of £200, for 560GB in total. They're all Seagate Barracudas though, and three of the four were bought brand new.
( fool_on_the_hill, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:14, archived)

it's brand new
not sure of the model ata-133 only 5,400rpm not sure about cache.
(GoldenFanjita, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:15, archived)

in that case
it's shite.
( Dr. Kitteny Berk, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:17, archived)

for what reason?

(GoldenFanjita, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:18, archived)

slowness.
and probably a 2meg cache if it's 5400
( Dr. Kitteny Berk, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:20, archived)

meh
i won't be doing anything special with it. pretty sure it will handle the old 'blueys' ;)
(GoldenFanjita, Sat 9 Apr 2005, 21:21, archived)