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What Makes a Good CD/DVD Duplicator?

Posted by Cliff on from the life-extension-by-cloning dept.

zachjb asks: "With all of the recent articles and buzz in the technology community regarding recordable/pressed optical disks being an unreliable medium to backup your data on, I figured the best way to keep my data alive is to duplicate my CDs/DVDs every few years. I've searched Froogle for CD/DVD duplicators, but I have no idea what I should be looking for. Does anyone in the Slashdot community have a lot experience with this type of equipment? Is this a reasonable solution to the problem or is there a more cost effective one?"

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  1. Re:Sounds like a job for RAID... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, with RAID-1 (full mirroring) it's dead easy to do backups. Make sure you have plenty of identical HDDs -- two obviously; one or two spare in case of genuine emergencies; and as many backups as you need to have on the go at any one time. Partition and format them all alike first, and build up your RAID-1 array on any two.

    When you're ready for a backup, just: Let the system sync up {it just does this by itself anyway}. Unplug one of the drives {Now the RAID is degraded}. Plug in another drive {Now the RAID is just out-of-sync}. Let it re-sync.

    I fully expect someone to point out a flaw in the above though .....