Quick Tip: If you use a lot of CDroms, consider copying them to your hard drive instead. If you have more than will fit, see about getting an external hard drive. A drive about the size of a deck of cards can easily hold as much as 50 CDs.
Pieces of the productivity puzzle.
The only problem with this quick tip concerns failure. Hard disks failure much more commonly than CDs deteriorate or are destroyed. Backing up hard disks with a lot of read-only data carries a one-time expense in time and possibly expense. Still, I like the idea of off-site backups of my CDs.
Be sure to store disk images of the CDs and not just their contents (Mac OS X makes this easy) as some CDs contain hidden files or boot information that is not copied when you copy the files onto a hard disk’s folder.
Good point. I wasn’t suggesting that you throw the CDs away. You should never trust valuable information to a single copy. The biggest advantage of this is being able to move your CDs out of your valuable work area space.