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Skriven 2006-07-08 22:43:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF GUERDAT
Ärende: Re: What Should I Do?
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JG>> Since my brother got his HP pc I've been more considering catching up
JG>> with him in the pc world.   ;-]

JG>Keeping up with the Joneses, eh?  ;)

Keeping up with the Vances, Jeff.   ;-]
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JG>> What size HD would you recommend I should get?

JG>What is it you expect to do with the drive?  Unless you're going to get
JG>into digital imaging of some sort, a small one is plenty sufficient
JG>(small meaning 40GB or so).  I'd pay more attention to the drive's specs
JG>to try to get the best performance.  What you're looking for is arial
JG>density or, more simply, the fewest heads/platters for the capacity.  If
JG>they don't allow you to specify the drive, just make sure it's 7200 RPM.
JG>  You might want to consider SATA for the smaller cabling.

I decided to get the HP a1430n. The HD is 250GB SATA.
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JG>> Should I use CD-R or CD-RW disks, do you use CD-R or CD-RW disks for
JG>> backup?
JG>>
JG>> I'll probably have a DVD burner of some kind in the pc so I guess I
JG>> should be asking how many DVD R or DVD RW
JG>> (I don't know if it'd be a + or a - type DVD drive).

JG>I used to use CD-RW and now use DVD+RW.  As you may have gathered from
JG>this echo, I'm in the minority with this strategy - others use another
JG>drive to image to.  CD/DVD is cheaper to get going but requires swaps of
JG>media and slows down the backup/restore process.  I don't care - price
JG>is more my issue and a little babysitting doesn't bother me.  Using
JG>rewritable media minimizes long-term cost but you could have many sets
JG>of media to allow you to go back further yet (I use 3 sets of media and
JG>rotate them so can only go back that far) - if you have the space and
JG>desire...

JG>Even with a new system, it's apt to fill at least one DVD.  I use DVD+RW
JG>since I find it works better in my burner (a Plextor) - test and decide
JG>for yourself (most drives these days are + and -).  I'd recommend
JG>quality media since it's your data.  Better media will likely write
JG>faster, too.  I backup ~10GB and, with compression, it takes less than 2
JG>DVDs.  I should point out that my system has ~230GB of space with ~75GB
JG>used and I use a backup software package as opposed to an imaging package.

OK, Thanks. What backup software are you using?

Someone else suggested Windows Imaging by Terrabyte, I'm going to look
into it to see what it offers.
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