Originally posted by theonejrs:

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I've now repaired the 700 watt Game Star

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I only said that because you've called it a gamestar in all your previous posts. Was just a correction for the sake of clarity.

Originally posted by theonejrs:

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I've now repaired the 700 watt Game Star

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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Well modding your own unit to taste is a bit different than comparing manufacturers ;P

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Never had any issues with my LG drives/burners, but then they're just devices to me, not intricate systems with their own distinctive characteristics to the extent you need to own half a dozen of them, ahem :P

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Originally posted by creaky:

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Tell me about it, i have 6 external drives spare, (plus another 6 or so bare writers), and i barely use existing internal opticals any more as it is :p

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Never had any issues with my LG drives/burners, but then they're just devices to me, not intricate systems with their own distinctive characteristics to the extent you need to own half a dozen of them, ahem :P

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Originally posted by creaky:

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Tell me about it, i have 6 external drives spare, (plus another 6 or so bare writers), and i barely use existing internal opticals any more as it is :p

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:p I fear one ore more quitting on me. If one ore more were to quit, I'd feel Like I were caught with my pants down LOL!!!

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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Well modding your own unit to taste is a bit different than comparing manufacturers ;P

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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It's far more expensive to use optical media than mechanical storage, not just in discs but also in physical space. Besides, I much prefer on-demand storage, not combing through hundreds of discs, but meh, we've had this debate before. Some of us live in the 21st century, some in the 20th, each to their own :P

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Actually the reverse is true, with a little common sense applied. With a redundant set of physically separated, grid-isolated drives, I'm actually in better stead for data security than optical media, which can easily get scratched, or get lost.
To distribute data to friends and people, I'd use the internet. Very rarely would I need to distribute data larger than a gigabyte or so, which is only a few hours uploading time on a standard home connection. No need to worry about the friend losing or damaging the disc this way, either.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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That just sounds like 'I don't have as much data as you do'. If you only have 50GB or so of data to store then sure, optical media is better. For anyone storing large quantities of media though, it's different. I can't honestly believe you think having physical redundant backups of hard disks using different models and leaving them isolated from power is more unreliable than fragile optical media.

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Originally posted by FredBun:

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fragile optical media, Hmm, let me think about this for a moment, I have seen my kids throw, scratch, stain and do almost everything else less wipe their butt with them, and they could still play, try and do that with a hardrive.

We went thru this before lol, we all know disc's if properly taken care of will outlast hardrives 10 fold, I mentioned before, I think I got close to 4000 movies, sure it would be a lot easier to stack them on hardrives, but after doing all the work getting them, not to mention the cost, and they are important to me and my family, and have the option to let whomever watch what they want to watch in whatever room using a dvd player is very accessible and easy, other wise you would need a pc in every room in the house.

I had this discussion with Russ one time, I told him the day I stop using disc's would be the day I could insert an external hardrive into a dvd player like a disc, but would still worry about the longevity.

But he got me on this one, he said Fred you can almost already do that, I think he mentioned a docking station or something to that nature, sent me a link to view one, I was flabbergasted, didn't even know something like that was available, so my argumentative ammunition with Russ almost came to a halt, like I said he got me on that one, but still, maybe because of fear, about the longevity etc, so for now I'll still stick with what I'm doing.

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