Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer

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Originally posted by rdouglass:

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
..Use the 60 as your Main drive because it is newer and more relyable...

From personal experience, a dangerous assumption... I've been bitten before by assuming the new drive was going to run as long as my old drive...Lasted 3 days... The CDR solution (at least when it comes to personal backup) IMO is a relatively quick and inexpensive solution. At about $.20 US per CD (640Mb), it doesn't take a whole lot of expensive media. Once you get a good backup, just do daily incrememtal backups.

Business solutions are an entirely different story...

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rdouglass

20 cents a CD!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, to be so lucky as to live in the U.S.

The best I have been able to do is 50 cents a CD. And that is buying generic, in bulk and on sale.

The reason is that Canadian sales of blank CD's and other removeable data storage have a "surcharge" for the support Canadian artists.

The Canadian government is very careful to say it is not a "tax" but the effect is the same. But whatever you call it the effect is the same.

So, right now the surcharge is about 30% of the price of a blank CD.

This year, the representatives for the artists wanted a further increase in the surcharge.

A groundswell composed of various manufacturers, computer Users, hobbyists, etc opposed the application which if approved would have meant that the retail price of a blank CD would more than double.

So, what did the commission do? It postponed everything for a year!

The interesting thing is that we Canadians have been paying the "surcharge" for a number of years and the Canadian artists have yet to see a penny of it.