How do YOU back up information?

Jayce · 11-23-2005, 03:22 AM

I have a pair of hard drives, one is a 5 year old IBM 20 gig and the other is a pretty spankin new Maxtor 200 gig. I can only backup x-amount of data onto the 20 gig, and to be honest I don't doubt it'll die before long cuz it's had quite an abusive life.

I had plans on buying a DVD burner and just burning files as data onto a DVDRW. I figured if I can get a boatload of songs burnt as data onto a CDRW (700mb) then a DVDRW (4.7gb) should give me a nice amount of space to work with. Does this sound like a probabal idea?

Now, while I'm asking you for how you back up your information, whether you ghost an image, mirror with raid or just save everything onto wal mart floppy disks, I also have a question regarding data burning. Why is data a more compressed format than the norm?

Ex. I'm sure all of you know you can only fit x-amount of songs onto a CDRW. But when you burn those same files as data onto that same CDRW, why is it you gain more room? I mean, it's the same quality stuff, isn't it? I have a CDRW in my car with 140 songs on it burned as data and it sounds no different... Just looking for some input.

Nubius · 11-23-2005, 03:27 AM

When you burn a musical CD that can be played in a normal CD-Player and not a player that can play mp3s it changes it to .wav format.

an mp3 which is 3mb changed into .wav format will then be like 50mb

Jayce · 11-23-2005, 05:44 AM

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Originally posted by Nubius
When you burn a musical CD that can be played in a normal CD-Player and not a player that can play mp3s it changes it to .wav format.

an mp3 which is 3mb changed into .wav format will then be like 50mb

Oh, I see. So is this only music that this "size transformation" takes place?

Ex. Say I have 1 gig of pictures, all JPEG. If I burn them to a DVDRW as data, will they remain 1 gig?

joshd · 11-23-2005, 01:29 PM

i just have a 250 and a 160 and use the 160 for backup. last time i backed up all my music, the 250 hit 67C. im not sure whether this is a bit high for a HDD.....

c0rr0sive · 11-23-2005, 03:19 PM

67C is rather hot for a harddrive, but one of that size and working for such a long time like that would get rather hot.... Mine hit about 23C when im not using them, 30C when they are active while in games....

Nubius · 11-23-2005, 03:31 PM

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Oh, I see. So is this only music that this "size transformation" takes place?

Ex. Say I have 1 gig of pictures, all JPEG. If I burn them to a DVDRW as data, will they remain 1 gig?

Yeah, jpeg will remain the same because data isn't having to be converted into a different format. .Wav format is the standard music format that your normal CD players play, that's the only time it'd needed to be converted as such.

Jayce · 11-23-2005, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by Nubius
Yeah, jpeg will remain the same because data isn't having to be converted into a different format. .Wav format is the standard music format that your normal CD players play, that's the only time it'd needed to be converted as such.

Regardless, I can probably back up all of my necessary files within two DVDRWs. Sounds like a **** good deal to me, versus buying a new hard drive! (that'll come later)