TECH: Loading CD-ROMs onto your hard drive

[Rena Deutsch <renadeutsch@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>]

Our computer coordinator, as well as a few other people, has suggested
loading the contents of our CD-ROMs (databases, mostly) onto a hard drive
(on the server, or on a separate hard drive), instead of running the
CD-ROMs on individual CD-ROM drives or on a CD-ROM changer.  He insists
that access would be faster and better.  While this sounds like a good
idea, there must be some drawbacks.  One thing I thought of right away was
the nightmare of  having to add the monthly updates/supplements (e.g., from
UMI) -- would you delete the old to add the new or.... (If you have UMI,
you'll know what I mean, even though I'm probably not explaining this
well). But then someone pointed out you could  partition your hard drive
and updating would not be a problem.

So, is there anyone else out there who is doing it?  If so, would you
recommend it? Why? Why not?

Rena Deutsch, Librarian
High School for the Humanities
New York, NY
renadeutsch@worldnet.att.com

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