> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:38:10 +0000
> From: rgaudin@gmail.com
> To: offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Offline-l] Possible template problem

> > Secondly, I find that the use of external hard drives being expensive and
> > unreliable. Expensive, since one HDD costs around ¤50. Unreliable because I
> > distrust students and how sure am I that in a month's time, the students or
> > teachers wouldn't have taken the hard disks and used them for their own
> > personal use? Also it can be easily deleted, unlike when it's on DVD.
>
> Not sure what you point is here. Kiwix runs on everything from DVD to
> USB Sticks or HDD or servers.
> Here in West Africa, CD & DVD are single use only at most due to dust
> and quality of hardware.
 

What I meant to say here is that using external HDD as opposed to DVDs is expensive. And yes, most DVDs are DVD-R format -- but that is not a problem because you can use the same DVD to install the offline Wikipedia from one school to another.

Abbas.