[FW] F/W Video Cam for Back ups?

[Henry Olders]

On 23 Dec 2004, at 23:48, Steven Rogers wrote:

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> On Dec 23, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Johns Maillist wrote:
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>> Many thanks!
>> John
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>> On Dec 23, 2004, at 8:19 AM, Willie Mason wrote:
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>>> Figure on about 13gb's per hour.
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>>> On Dec 23, 2004, at 5:36 AM, Johns Maillist wrote:
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>>>> I have a Canon DV camera, ZR-90 and I am currently using 30 minute 
>>>> tapes.
>>>> I am looking to learn about the options of backing up to this 
>>>> device, but do not know if it will work.  If it will, does anyone 
>>>> know the physical capacity of the various length tapes? I have 
>>>> about 60 GB's to back up, and need to know how many tapes I would 
>>>> need.
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>
> Considering the cost of the camera and the finite life of the record 
> heads, I'd suggest backups of computer data are a very costly use of 
> your camera. A DVD drive and a stack of DVD-RWs is a much more cost 
> effective solution. It might seem like a wise economy to use the one 
> device for two purposes, but when you consider the number of hours 
> that regular backups would put on the camera, its a false economy.
>
These days, external USB hard drives of 80 or 160 GB are cheap (a buck 
or less per gigabyte) and widely available, and allow nightly backups 
without having to change media.

Henry