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Re: Doom Schloom

Aug 5, 2004, 14:39

kanniballl

The 250 did have higher RPM...

That (plus everything else) makes sense then. My apologies.

I have a 4x dvd burner, but I figure if it's important enough to backup, it's important enough to verify that the data burnt correctly on the disc. But verify basically doubles your burn time (20 minute burn, plus 15 minute verify). A 120 gig drive would take at least 26 dvds to backup (this last time I used about 8, I think). A 250 gig drive would take at least 56 dvds.

I used to do that, but the number of CD's and (later) DVD's was getting pretty huge. Then I started using Imaging software (partitions, not pictures).

You can image your hard drive, and it compresses it A LOT (like, zip maxium compression or greater). With the software I have, you can set it to specify an "output disk size" to fit CD's (650MB or 700MB), DVD's, etc, or custom.

I just set it to DVD-size, let make image files for one hard drive onto the other, then burn the resulting image files to DVD. After the DVD has been validated, I delete the image file off the hard drive.

It takes a while to both image the hard drive AND burn DVD's, but it takes up a lot less space in my DVD-album. And the imaging isn't as bad as you'd imagine. With some software, you can just do it through windows (no reboots), so while backing up your secondary drive, you can still browse the web and do low-CPU-intensive apps.

This way, if I ever need to (or decide to) reformat even my primary drive, I can revert it to a couple levels of baselines (Windows, Windows + Office, Windows + Office + Dev Tools, Complete with Games, etc).

The only problem is if I need to browse through those disks to find 1 particular file, it can take a while for the software to find it (I might need to swap the DVDs every so often).

Pentium 4 3.06 GHz w/ Hyperthreading + 533 MHz FSB
1024MB DDR2100 Crucial RAM
PNY Verto GeForce 6800 GT
Windows XP Pro
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Viewsonic 17" VP171b LCD

This comment was edited on Aug 5, 14:41.




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