Disadvantages of DVD Backup
DVD Drives are NOT the answer to properly backing up your data offsite every night.
Just the cost of a DVD drive can be more than a year of our service, but without the security of having the data
stored safely offsite. Every time you make a backup with a DVD drive, you will typically spend $3 on the blank DVD-R media
itself...about the same cost per day as our 30 GB solution.
Add the time it takes you to physically run the backup (5-10 minutes) and the time it takes you to take that data offsite
and you will quickly see that you will spend more on time than you would if you deployed PC Data Backups. DVDs are a
relatively new technology and their long-term reliability has not been proven. DVD-RW is less reliable than DVD-R, and
multiple DVD-R disks per day can become very expensive.
Rewritable DVD Drive Backup Overview
DVD drive cost: $100-$250, blank 4.8 GB DVD-R cost: $1-$5 each
- How long does it take you to back up each time . . . actual time?
- Is the 4.8 GB limitation on DVD-Rs ever an obstacle?
- Do you have more than 4.8 GB of data to backup?
- Do you have to use multiple DVD-Rs?
- How much time does that take you?
- What quality of DVD-Rs do you use (are they more than $5 each)?
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