Comments on: Hard Drive Instead of CDs http://www.productivity501.com/hard-drive-instead-of-cds/803/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:55:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark Shead http://www.productivity501.com/hard-drive-instead-of-cds/803/comment-page-1/#comment-53437 Mark Shead Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:28:02 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=803#comment-53437 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. 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.

]]> By: J. B. Rainsberger http://www.productivity501.com/hard-drive-instead-of-cds/803/comment-page-1/#comment-53310 J. B. Rainsberger Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:57:06 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=803#comment-53310 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. 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.

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