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 Member 337 Level 18.92 Mar 2006 
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Life of DVD±Rs and HDs
Since a lot of us are backing up our absolutely legal music, movies, and other precious data on hundreds of DVD±Rs and/or your brand new 1TB Hard Drive, I was wondering what the life expectancy of those are.
What's the best way for my data to last the rest of my life? Do I need to make copies of each DVD±R every 10 years? Should I toss them in the freezer? What are you guys doing to preserve your data? Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 337 Level 18.92 Mar 2006
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I'm using Verbatim discs with an MID of "MCC 03RG20." I've been reading that good quality discs could a decade or two, to a century.
I don't know much about hard drives (still haven't grasped the concept of RAID, etc.) How reliable are they? I've been seeing threads from members here crying "my hard drive crashed! I lost 200000 songs and 300GB of data" or something. Is it because they bought a shitty drive or even played doctor with it? I dont want to put my trust in a hard drive and have it die on me all of a sudden, for no reason. And how would a Hard drive be cheaper? DVD-Rs seem cheaper to me when I break it down to dollars/ per GB. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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