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Re: Video Storage

Derek Roff — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:45:04 GMT

... Here is the link to the NewerTech Voyager Q dock that I use. It has FireWire 400, two

Re: Camcorder Shopping

Rigdon Currie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:37:09 GMT

I have an earlier Canon Vixia HF 10 and it is fabulous. I use iMovie 09 and iDVD on an iMac, get better DVDs than with standard definition and agree with all

Re: Video Storage

David Miers — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:05:25 GMT

I'd love to find that in firewire

Re: Video Storage

Gordon Alley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:44:54 GMT

These drives are almost always shipped in anti-static mylar bags. I save these bags and keep the drives in them while not in use. -Gordon ... -- Gordon B.

Re: Video Storage

Dave Jones — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:27:56 GMT

... There are even protective anti-static boxes for safely storing those "naked" drives. Dave Jones iMac 2.4

Re: Video Storage

Gordon Alley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:12:50 GMT

A disk drive not in an enclosure (often referred to as a "bare" or "naked" drive) is just the drive mechanism and its built-in controller electronics, without

Re: Video Storage

Derek Roff — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:29:43 GMT

I use bare hard drives in a NewerTech Voyager dock, which I got from Other World Computing. As an aside, I've found this drive dock to be substantially faster

Re: Video Storage

Cannon Family — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:54:49 GMT

Back to Basics for me: Please explain the difference between a drives not in an enclosure and drive in an enclosure?? Would you please explain

Re: Video Storage

Gordon Alley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:11:43 GMT

Well, they're hard disks, and they don't get a lot of wear, so they'll probably last awhile. I'd worry more about technology changing to where I didn't have

Re: Video Storage

Patrick A. Timlin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:14:59 GMT

... Well the key thing is not what manner of backup you use, but as you are now painfully aware that you HAVE a backup of some sort. And as you also now know

Re: Video Storage

David Miers — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:11:12 GMT

But what is the projected safe life of that pair of disks in storage? Do you have an index so you know where everything is? I think your on the right track

Re: Video Storage

Gordon Alley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:19:36 GMT

I use a pair of 1TB (currently) drives (no enclosures - I use a "universal" esata-to-USB interface to mount them on my Mac). One is for local, the other for

Re: Video Storage

David Miers — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:17:02 GMT

oooooh is that a can of worms...they have lots of hard drives duplicated...duplicate dvds and now blue-ray....and the really funny thing is..what will wind up

Video Storage

Cannon Family — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:04:41 GMT

After having an external hard drive go bad (I was able to recover my files hallelujah!), I am thinking about my back up plan. Just curious how you save/backup