Excuse my apparent lack of wisdom, but can anyone tell me why you can't just buy a cheap PC (or even use an old one) and three SATA drives, and use the change to buy the disks to copy onto? Things like these seem awfully expensive for what they apparently do.
Less chance of buffer overruns and possible I/O blocking in an operating system? And, do you want to have to boot up into a specific mode just to copy discs?
By putting it in a dedicated machine, all the risks of random problems in a PC are eliminated (except for power outages). This isn't for your average joe.
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Excuse my apparent lack of wisdom, but can anyone tell me why you can't just buy a cheap PC (or even use an old one) and three SATA drives, and use the change to buy the disks to copy onto? Things like these seem awfully expensive for what they apparently do.
It's the convenience of being unassisted (mostly), as well as no need for the knowledge of how to do the same thing on a pc, and no software costs..
Less chance of buffer overruns and possible I/O blocking in an operating system? And, do you want to have to boot up into a specific mode just to copy discs?
By putting it in a dedicated machine, all the risks of random problems in a PC are eliminated (except for power outages). This isn't for your average joe.
Does it stop those viruses that keep spreading on MP3 players, photo frames and iPods? :p