XPost: misc.consumers   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Jeff Jonas wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
      
   >> I dont bother with DVDs anymore, keep stuff on 2TB hard drives used in a   
   >> docking station now. Much cheaper than DVDs. 2TB is the best $/GB currently.   
      
    > I can't deny your logic, for all my computer backups are now disk-to-disk   
   > since I have no other media available for backing up 0.5 to 1 TB.   
      
   > But there are drawbacks and perils to that strategy   
      
   Nope.   
      
   > - if the drive breaks, EVERYTHING is lost.   
      
   Nope. Just have more than one 2TB drive.   
      
   >  If a DVD is damaged, only that volume's lost   
      
   Just as true of 2TB drives.   
      
   >  and it's reasonable to make more than 1 DVD of   
   > everything due to their habit of going bad anyway.   
      
   You can do that with 2TB drives too and plenty of the docking   
   stations allow two of them so you can copy them trivially too.   
      
   > - DVDs have an advantage: they can be taken to other people's houses   
   >  and played on their PC or player (depending on file format).   
      
   You can do that with the drives too.   
      
   >  I would not risk transporting today's high density disks:  they crash too   
   easily.   
      
   More fool you. I get them using the postal system and not one of them has   
   arrived dead.   
      
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