Posted: Thu Jan 01, 1970 6:04 am
Yep, I currently have ~1.3TB of data to burn (whenever I can motivate myself to bother... at 16x and with two burners going, I can get it done at a rate of ~8.4GB/hr verified... about 9.3min/disc... So, about 165 hrs total, or 6.9 straight days! Oh, I'd still have to PREPARE the data for burning too, so, that hurts the total time... Partly why I am so reluctant to start burning...)
I have burned about 400GB of it this month though... (Wow, guess that means I started with 1.7TB?)
It is all sorts of junk: captured a/v I did myself (most of it still needs to be edited), stuff off of the usenet (ever been in the alt.binaries.multimedia groups!? You can find some ultra-cool stuff there!); actually, that might be it...
I'm basically a digital packrat: I haven't deleted a darn thing in at least seven years now...
I bought the cd-r back in spring '01, then I started doing all kinds of OT at work, realized I had no time to burn the stuff (way too busy, 85 hr weeks, at work 6a-10pm M-F then 6-12 Sat), but realized I had the money to buy a ton o' HDs! So, I did! After having way too many of them fail though (never lost any data, I am one lucky SOB!), I have now gone the RAID 5 route... But it just isn't the same as having the stuff burned, obviously...
80GB x 7 = ~480Gb RAID 5
160GB x 5 = ~640GB RAID 5
Soon I will throw a few more drives on the controller:
120GB x 3 = ~240GB RAID 5
So, basically 1.3TB in RAID storage available...
I still have (had more though) a real Heinz-57 of drives: 12 80GB Maxtor, 2 80GB Maxtors (different model), three 100GB Maxtors (two unused, ALL are returns from RMAed 80GBers though! ), one 120GB IBM, and seven 160GB Maxtors... Obviously not all RAIDed...
In case you are wondering:
Grab a good book (Clarke/Sagan/Dick/Harris/Card as of late) and say 48 cd-r and you are set for at least four hrs! Read for nine minutes, switch discs, repeat...
Regarding the inability to test for C2 errors: Yah, that was my thinking too, UNTIL I grabbed some of 'em and threw them into my Sony 40x burner and saw the errors!
And if you think that's bad: I have a 24x TDK burner that seems UNABLE to burn an error-free SECTOR! (NOT DISC, BUT SECTOR!) The entire discs are YELLOW that I burned with that POS!
I have burned about 400GB of it this month though... (Wow, guess that means I started with 1.7TB?)
It is all sorts of junk: captured a/v I did myself (most of it still needs to be edited), stuff off of the usenet (ever been in the alt.binaries.multimedia groups!? You can find some ultra-cool stuff there!); actually, that might be it...
I'm basically a digital packrat: I haven't deleted a darn thing in at least seven years now...
I bought the cd-r back in spring '01, then I started doing all kinds of OT at work, realized I had no time to burn the stuff (way too busy, 85 hr weeks, at work 6a-10pm M-F then 6-12 Sat), but realized I had the money to buy a ton o' HDs! So, I did! After having way too many of them fail though (never lost any data, I am one lucky SOB!), I have now gone the RAID 5 route... But it just isn't the same as having the stuff burned, obviously...
80GB x 7 = ~480Gb RAID 5
160GB x 5 = ~640GB RAID 5
Soon I will throw a few more drives on the controller:
120GB x 3 = ~240GB RAID 5
So, basically 1.3TB in RAID storage available...
I still have (had more though) a real Heinz-57 of drives: 12 80GB Maxtor, 2 80GB Maxtors (different model), three 100GB Maxtors (two unused, ALL are returns from RMAed 80GBers though! ), one 120GB IBM, and seven 160GB Maxtors... Obviously not all RAIDed...
In case you are wondering:
Grab a good book (Clarke/Sagan/Dick/Harris/Card as of late) and say 48 cd-r and you are set for at least four hrs! Read for nine minutes, switch discs, repeat...
Regarding the inability to test for C2 errors: Yah, that was my thinking too, UNTIL I grabbed some of 'em and threw them into my Sony 40x burner and saw the errors!
And if you think that's bad: I have a 24x TDK burner that seems UNABLE to burn an error-free SECTOR! (NOT DISC, BUT SECTOR!) The entire discs are YELLOW that I burned with that POS!