RE: recommendations/experience with CD/DVD autoloader

Actually, the ones I'm referring to are USB powered, so they don't require an additional power supply. It's one less thing to lose.

-Jon L. Hill
iniCom Networks Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dunigan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:18 PM
To: Jon Hill; [email protected]
Subject: RE: recommendations/experience with CD/DVD autoloader

    Around here, BestBuy has been running the WesternDigital drives like
described below for approx. $140 for a 500GB drive.


Michael J. Dunigan
MDunigan62 at aim dot com
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jon Hill
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:26 PM
To: Glenn Dardick; [email protected]
Subject: RE: recommendations/experience with CD/DVD autoloader

Glenn,

        We moved to producing data on hard drive some time ago. As you said,
images are getting bigger but so are the options for production media. The
small USB powered notebook-drive based portable drive units are large enough
to hold a good amount of data (~160GB these days), as simple as plugging in
a USB thumb drive, and pretty cheap (<$150). If you need write-protected
drive options you'll probably have to assemble something yourself but still,
there are options out there.

-Jon L. Hill
iniCom Networks Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Glenn Dardick
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: recommendations/experience with CD/DVD autoloader

As the drives are getting larger and larger it is becoming more of a
pain to submit forensic images on optical media.  Any
thoughts/experience with the following:

1) preference/insistence by courts of forensic images on specific type
of media (hard disk drive, optical media, tape)

2) pricing/reliability/recommendations of cd/dvd autoloader to automate
copying of image files to DVD's

Thanks

Glenn S. Dardick