Thank god for backup!!!

[JZaun]

Today my DVD Burner quit. Couldn't burn a CD or DVD. I have a lap top PC with a DVD and tested the RW DVD's to make sure the problem was the burner. Yep it was. Now I rotate backups thru several DVD's. I back up every week to another DVD and every 3rd week I overwrite the 1st of several. 3 weeks of DVD backups would not read in any reader !@#$%^&& Panic set in just for a instant. I have another backup on the "C" drive and one on a external 160 gig drive. You just can''t have too many backups :). So I am ok but I wrote and tested DVD backups for 3 weeks and they were ok until today. Ok I need another DVD Burner and another brand of DVD I think. I think double layer this time. Anyone have any sugestions on burner and DL DVD's? Or should I stay with single layer DVD.

JZ

[CyberDyneSystems]

Ouch! Thank god you didn't lose anything!

I have an 8X Lite-on DVD that I like a lot,. I don't use re-writeble media EVER anymore,. as I find it to be exceedingly un likely to give me a readable disk in the first place,. not too mention it seems to have trouble with longevity. Mind you I have only tried DVD-RW once,. but it did essentially what I had come to expect from CD-RW,. ei: failure.

So I only use DVD-R media and have had good luck with all brads I've tried.

[tim]

I don't trust optical media. I keep all my photos on my hard drive, back photos and everything up to a portable hard drive, and copy it onto my work machine. I write a DVD backup occasionally and post it to my parents to keep, just in case I delete a file and the deletion gets propogated to each of my hard drive backups.

[Scottes]

Plextor is often considered to make the best burners out there. That said, I bought an NEC the last time on a recommendation from a friend and it's served me very well. It's a dual layer ND-2510A. I was told - and believe - that blank dual-layer disks are expensive but should become reasonable eventually, so it seems worth it to spend the extra few bucks to get a DL burner and hope that the disks actually do drop in price.

[Belmondo]

Today my DVD Burner quit.

JZ

Many, oh man. You certainly seem to be snake-bitten when it comes to computers. Glad you didn't lose anythning vital. To be sure, there's a lesson in this for all of us.

[JZaun]

Many, oh man. You certainly seem to be snake-bitten when it comes to computers. Glad you didn't lose anythning vital. To be sure, there's a lesson in this for all of us.


Snake bitten for sure. Usually once a year. :)This is a PC I built in 1997, as a 300 mhz PII, upgraded to a 800mhz PIII several years later and the disk and CD's were replaced. Upgraded again 2 years ago to a 2gig P4. CD's upgraded several times. Finally a DVD RW unit last winter when I got the 10D. My PC is in a constant state of upgrade :) Recently upgraded the monitor to a Dell ultrasharp LCD, (love it) I just can't seem to upgrade until I have a problem :? NOw its a do I get DL DVD, or stay with the older technology. One thing you can be sure of. I WILL NOT HAVE ONLY ONE KIND OF BACHUP!!

JZ

[CyberDyneSystems]

I WILL NOT HAVE ONLY ONE KIND OF BACHUP!!

JZ

Indeed,. I allways enjoy a nice variety of bachup as well,. the more the merrier :lol:

//look who's poking fun at someones typing skills,. talk about calling the kettle black!

[Scottes]

Bachup? Is that what you do at a bacchanalia when you've had to much to drink?

[Belmondo]

Actually, it's a reference to one of the early Silicon Valley pioneers....
Johann Sebastian Bachup. One of the developers of tape drives, I think.

[JZaun]

Indeed,. I allways enjoy a nice variety of bachup as well,. the more the merrier :lol:

//look who's poking fun at someones typing skills,. talk about calling the kettle black!


Hahahahaha, I had to read that 10 times before I saw I type like you do.:)

Well I picked up a Memorex DL DVD +/- burner. On sale at Compusa for $99 with a $20 rebate! Went over to pick up some DL- DVD's WOW WOW WOW,, $8 to $10 each!!! WOW. Picked some Single Layer DVD's instead.:? Well I have the DL writer so when the DL media drops enough in price I may try it:) Re burnt all pic's again, twice on DVD/RW and once on CD-R. 1 back up on each of 3 hard disk. Ok bring on the crashes :) 2 of those HD are elswhere! Not on my desktop. Any way I now got plenty of Bachups :)

JZ

[Persian-Rice]

I have a HP which is actually a rebadged NEC. Really nice burner, have no probnlems yet, but the trick is to buy good media.

I have my images on this PC, my laptop, my second pc and on DVD.

[Jon]

NEC or Plextor. The 16X ones seem, on anecdotal evidence, to be a tad touchier than the older, slower ones. The double-layer models need to shake out a bit before I'll go with them.

It stays on the card until it's on CD or DVD (at least twice), hard drives on two computers and the network drive.