Comment Re:warranty period (Score 1) 727
It's fast becoming the "norm" for average people to have tens of gigs, and then a hundred or two gigs, of personal data.
I've owned a digital camera for just one year, and in that year I've amassed about 6 gigs of photos. Four-megapixel images add up fast.
I've also ripped over 200 of my CDs to mp3 files. So I have something like 30 gigs of mp3s. And yes, that DOES need to be backed up -- re-ripping 200 CDs would take a ridiculous amount of time and effort... and would probably kill my CDrom if I tried to do it all at once. And even though ripping is relatively fast (~4x realtime on my 40x drive, using a decent ripper that does proper error detection), encoding isn't... LAME with the r3mix preset runs at just 2x realtime on my pIII 850MHz machine. So between ripping and encoding you're talking about 3/4 of realtime, so maybe about 40 minutes, per CD. In my opinion, that much time and effort makes my mp3 collection well worth backing up.
So that's 36 gigs of "personal data" that doesn't even take "normal" personal data into account... coursework, programming, my website, etc.
I've owned a digital camera for just one year, and in that year I've amassed about 6 gigs of photos. Four-megapixel images add up fast.
I've also ripped over 200 of my CDs to mp3 files. So I have something like 30 gigs of mp3s. And yes, that DOES need to be backed up -- re-ripping 200 CDs would take a ridiculous amount of time and effort... and would probably kill my CDrom if I tried to do it all at once. And even though ripping is relatively fast (~4x realtime on my 40x drive, using a decent ripper that does proper error detection), encoding isn't... LAME with the r3mix preset runs at just 2x realtime on my pIII 850MHz machine. So between ripping and encoding you're talking about 3/4 of realtime, so maybe about 40 minutes, per CD. In my opinion, that much time and effort makes my mp3 collection well worth backing up.
So that's 36 gigs of "personal data" that doesn't even take "normal" personal data into account... coursework, programming, my website, etc.
