whats best for CD burning ?

[drednox]

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

 

[Drakkon]

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...

 

[Spyro]

500 - 600 gigabytes???? :Q

 

[BlueWeasel]

In keeping with the thread: 500-600gigabytes!!?? :Q

Nero all the way....

 

[Challenger]

Originally posted by: wizardLRU
500 - 600 gigabytes???? :Q

Have you considered a DVD recorder?I also suggest Nero for ease of drag and drop

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Challenger

Originally posted by: wizardLRU
500 - 600 gigabytes???? :Q

Have you considered a DVD recorder?I also suggest Nero for ease of drag and drop

Forget DVD. He should get one of those huge tape backups.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Challenger

Originally posted by: wizardLRU
500 - 600 gigabytes???? :Q

Have you considered a DVD recorder?I also suggest Nero for ease of drag and drop

Forget DVD. He should get one of those huge tape backups.

That would be quite a few tapes..............

 

[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....

 

[drednox]

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 ?

 

[Sid59]

nero

have fun backing up 500-600GIGS!!! i hate ti when i have to backup 4-6 gigs.

 

[drednox]

i doubt i will do everything, but will do quite a bit of it.

 

[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.

 

[BennyD]

dude, thats like 900 cdr's!!!!

 

[viper118]

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.

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.

 

[VicodiN]

I dont think he means gigs... Unless he has about 10 hardrives full of info.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: VicodiN
I dont think he means gigs... Unless he has about 10 hardrives full of info.

for all this i use a HD caddy and it spans about 10 high volume hard drives (ranging from 15-180gb in size each).

:Q

 

[bjc112]

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....

Thats go to be about 1,000 pages...