Pieces of the productivity puzzle.
Quick Tip: If you use a lot of CDroms, consider copying them to your hard drive instead. If you have more than will fit, see about getting an external hard drive. A drive about the size of a deck of cards can easily hold as much as 50 CDs.
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The only problem with this quick tip concerns failure. Hard disks failure much more commonly than CDs deteriorate or are destroyed. Backing up hard disks with a lot of read-only data carries a one-time expense in time and possibly expense. Still, I like the idea of off-site backups of my CDs.
Be sure to store disk images of the CDs and not just their contents (Mac OS X makes this easy) as some CDs contain hidden files or boot information that is not copied when you copy the files onto a hard disk’s folder.
Good point. I wasn’t suggesting that you throw the CDs away. You should never trust valuable information to a single copy. The biggest advantage of this is being able to move your CDs out of your valuable work area space.