Instant Pro Series - Cubase SX 2.0 (DVD)

Advantages: Very fast, high capacity.
Disadvantages: Pricey, may be outlived by long-life Blu-ray discs.

...very easy for tired, stressed sysadmins to find all this information when required. Out of the box, the device is set for raid zero, ie it has a total of 2TB of storage space (Thats's 2048GB unformatted which is equivalent to 435 blank DVD's or over 2800 blank CD's). Of course there's little point using the drive in this way when you can set it up as raid one. This means you have two drives, one of which is a mirror image of the other. If one drive dies, hopefully everything will still be intact on the other and will get copied to the newly replaced drive. Meanwhile back in real life it's far more likely that both drives will begin to develop a few bad sectors at the same time but hopefully they won't be the same bad sectors on both drives. This means you can copy the data to a fresh drive, replace both internal drives and then copy... Read review

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Advantages: ummmmm
Disadvantages: Doesn't work very well, slow, intermitently recognises disks, poor back up service, need I go on?

...I ordered my Freecom DVD Recorder LS USB 2.0 after my CD/DVD drive packed up on my 15 month old HP Desktop. I wanted it mainly to load CD ROM and burn DVD's from movies already converted to DVD format on my hard drive. Being that my PC had no disk drive I relied upon this external drive to load the bundled DVD burning software (Roxio 9). This took several days and many attempts. Then I tried burning my first DVD. After taking 3 hours to do a task that previously took about 30 minutes, this recorder produced a disc that no dvd player in my home recognised (and I have 4). I found the user interface very unfriendly and it simply didn't work. Needles to say, I'll be getting a refund!... Read review

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Advantages: Awesome episodes - a classic t.v. sitcom produced to be as the original was
Disadvantages: not sharper image, no extras

...leg from the morge where he brought it home from one of his classes to write an essay on it. He decides to strap it to the front of his car instead in the 1st episode! The DVD is a simple set up and plays striaght on to the episodes, you can select play all, or view one by one. It contains the whole of series one of the young ones. The episodes are as follows; 1. Demolition. This is the first one ever and we see an intro duction to all the characters, including the landlord who has various other roles throughout the series. The basic plot appart from setting up and introducing characters is that the guys are living in their accomodation they have done for some time when one day they recieve a letter from the council informing them that their house is to be demolished. Naturally Vyvyan throws a tantrum and decides to beat them to the job... Read review

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