• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

whats best for CD burning ?

D

drednox

Member
hi

looking for some feedback on CD burning / copying apps, which ones are good and why, etc.

i have a lot of data to back up, maybe 500-600 gigs to CDs, no music or video, mostly various documents, so i am looking for something relatively fast, to the point, and mostly reliable, no need for useless extra features.


thanks


 
500-600GB of DOCUMENTS??? damn....but yeah...Nero is god when it comes to backing up imho...has a nice interface...compatible with everything...and seems to be the program everyone uses to make backups of justabout anything...
 
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: Challenger
Originally posted by: wizardLRU
500 - 600 gigabytes???? :Q
Click to expand...

Have you considered a DVD recorder?I also suggest Nero for ease of drag and drop😉
Click to expand...
Forget DVD. He should get one of those huge tape backups.
Click to expand...

That would be quite a few tapes..............
 
I don t even want to know how many pages of documents that would be.

RAR them up. I find documents usually compress pretty well, otherwise....
 
heheh

well there is all sorts of stuff in there, animated presentations, lotta charts and graphics and whatnot, also a lot of backed up cad/cam stuff, and a lot of completed nc/cnc programs along with their respective simulated runs in 3d.

for all this i use a HD caddy and it spans about 10 high volume hard drives (ranging from 15-180gb in size each). so when you sum it all up its really not that much. i went with hard drives because lets face it, nothing beats the speed of an HD. and i really dont wanna mess around with tapes, tapes suck. as far as DVD goes, i will wait a little longer until it is more standardized and rest of the kinks are worked out.

needless to say everything will be archived so it will be reduced in size quite a lot, overall average at least 25-30%. and while it will take me a while, i basically need to put the stuff onto the CDs, cause its a hell of a lot easier to carry around a portable CD case with 20 CDs in it, then hard drives to have to plug into someone elses computer especially when at a business meeting.

so while this may sound weird it really isnt 🙂



anyways, so everyones vote is for nero ? got a link ?


 
With the price of CD burners hitting around ~$15/$20 (or sometimes lower) these days at hotdeal forum, it might be worth to add couple extras to speed up the whole burning process.
 
Originally posted by: Doh!
With the price of CD burners hitting around ~$15/$20 (or sometimes lower) these days at hotdeal forum, it might be worth to add couple extras to speed up the whole burning process.
Click to expand...

this is definently a good suggestion.. just add 2 or 3 more burners and you can burn everything so much faster... 500-600gb of documents is kinda crazy to burn on one burner... especially if you are burning it consecutively...

for program, i too would suggest that you use nero.. easy to use program that pretty much works with everything.

 
Originally posted by: Bulldog13
I don t even want to know how many pages of documents that would be.

RAR them up. I find documents usually compress pretty well, otherwise....
Click to expand...

Thats go to be about 1,000 pages...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top