Re: Do I have this correct?


"Jenn" <jennconductsREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <HpSdnSP6D8UXGsjanZ2dnUVZ_qygnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Soundhaspriority" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Jenn" <jennconductsREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" <arnyk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"soundhaspriority" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rippling a collection to hard disk is a lengthy
endeavor.

Probably around 5-8 CDs per hour, more or less. If you do it while
watching
TV, you can change discs during every commercial break...

And it's so volatile!

Hard drives can go away in a flash, though most failures I've seen
recently
were a while in the making.

You really need
duplicate or triplicate hard disk storage for this.

That's more like a want, unless you dispose of the origional discs.
And
of
course, that breaks the copyright.

I don't believe that this is a copyright violation, but I'll check
later
today.

Jenn, you are technologically nervier than I am. There are many single
point failures in a computer that can take it all away.

Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511

Oh, I would never get rid of the CDs! I'm just saying that I don't
think that Arny's suggestion breaks the law.

Of course. My point is, you don't want to spend a whole lot of time on
something that will, eventually, go "poof!" Consumer computers are not
designed to be terribly reliable. In fact, they are designed to be as
unreliable as they can get away with. There is a whole other class, called
"server hardware", which is built for reliability. And beyond that, there
are mission-critical systems for life support and aircraft control. But
even the Space Shuttle computers glitch.

Even with a backup, it is possible for the source to become silently
corrupted. It's very hard to know the backup is good. In the world of
professional archivists, backups are write-once. But these backup systems
are more expensive than the hard drive itself.

Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511


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