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Re: V2.0 good reason for a 702 instead of 722 ... (?)

Subject: Re: V2.0 good reason for a 702 instead of 722 ... (?)
From: "Walter Knapp" waltknapp
Date: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:53 am (PDT)
Posted by: "Tim Nielsen"

> True, but I think I'd be nervous filling up an 80 gig drive with no
> backup. Imagine if that drive failed in the field, and you lost
> everything. The nice with the v2, is that you can buy a little
> external 40 gig firewire drive for $100, and backup every day or so.
> I never pull the recordings off my 722, i.e., delete them, until
> they're mastered and backed up twice in my normal library. It's nice
> to have that backup on there of the original recordings.

Note that SD recommends replacing the internal hard disk periodically
due to increasing risk of failure with time.

The all your eggs in one basket syndrome has been discussed several
times in the group. And there are people who have lost a whole trip's
worth of recordings, though I don't remember any that did so with the SD
recorders. It's only a matter of time, however.

Note that the cheap firewire drives are probably less trustworthy in the
field than the one in the 722. How many are replacing the internal drive
on their portable firewire drive periodically?

> I might invest in a small portable DVD burner too. Would be nice on a =

> long trip to be able to quickly burn a DVD and mail it to yourself.
> Except I think the 722 can only burn DVD-Ram discs, not DVD-R, CD-R,
> etc. Which is kinda a drag.

I carry a Epson P2000 in the field for backing up my photography from
the CF. It would be possible to back up sound CF with the same unit.
However, a few month long trip would be too much photography and sound
to fit.

For the longer trips I generally have along a portable 3.5" optical
drive and a laptop to run it. There is nothing safer than those optical
disks. It sounds like the same sort of thing would be necessary to back
up the 702 since it does not properly support battery operated backup.

Of course for sound I record directly onto small optical disks, the
first leg of my permanent archive. Minidiscs recorded with my HHb
Portadisc. I do not worry about any need to back them up in the field.

Note you can record to CF with the 722, same as you can with the 702 so
you can use it the same way you would use a 702. And you have the option
as well of a hard disk to store more and longer recordings if needed. I
do not consider the 702 a better option, it's a cut down version of the
722, for not enough less money.

Walt





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