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I got tired of having all kinds of CD's aboard. They took up way too much
space and finding the one I wanted to hear was a pain.
I bought a hard drive based CD player with a 40GB hard drive. The player is
also capable of storing data files.
I have back up copies of all of my charts on it, all of my music (ripped to
mp3), and I even have a back up image of my pc hard drive on it. I also have
a full back up of that data on a second, removable hard disk drive that I
stow in a hidden location just in case my laptop gets stolen. A spare laptop
hard drive is small (just a little bigger than a credit card) and
inexpensive.
Getting rid of the CD's (music and original charts) was the best thing I
could have done. They are in a trunk in storage, safe from water and theft.
Jeff
>From: David Elmer <>
>To: "Jeff Barfett" <>, "'live aboard'"
><>
>Subject: RE: lv-ab: CD player onboard????
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:53:39 -0400
>
> >David,
> >Idea's for fool proof storage container? I have a lot of DVD's on board
> >stored in zippered binders with each DVD having it's own page to store.
>
>
>After discovering that most of the locations I was storing the disks in
>weren't cutting it, I eventually moved them to those "wallets" also.
>So far, so good. I think it's more where the wallets are stored that's
>the issue and as long as they have the ability to gradually adapt to
>the temperature changes (as opposed to radical changes) it works out
>okay. I have the same problem with VERY expensive guitars onboard, it's
>just much more painful with them :-)
>
>
>
> >Sounds like we almost will need to vacuum seal the disks?
> >Jeff
>
>
>
>Sounds good except it would be a nightmare every time you wanted to
>access one.
>
>I'm getting close to throwing in the towel and just putting all of them
>(the entertainment ones anyway) onto the hard drive and letting the
>computer be the "entertainment system", instead of my diskman. The space
>I gained by consolidating all those disks into the (BIG) wallets was
>incredible and boy was I happy (even though trashing the cases was
>painful).
>If course if this is the route taken, it behooves one to BACK UP, BACK UP,
>BACK UP, unless you can afford to lose them (it'll never happen to me :-)
>
>David
>
>
>
> >Melinda,
> >I jumped into this kinda late so I'm not sure whether anyone
> >mentioned or not but the biggest drawback to any form of disk
> >type media is the constant potential of moisture getting into
> >the tiny little (mostly invisible to the naked eye) crevices
>
>
>
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