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Posted by Damon on 12/30/05 09:32
marks542004@yahoo.com wrote:
> In my opinion the data is safer on DVD than on the hard drive.
>
> If your disks are rated at 8x burn I would burn at 4x since I find it
> gives better results.
>
> DVD single layer is about 4.7 Gb max. So your 100 GB for 25 is straight
> arithmetic. You will lose some in directory stuctures burning a data
> disc.
>
> Make sure you do a read after write check to ensure the data is
> correctly written to disk.
Safe? Not at all, I used to have my commonly used install files on one
DVD-r then one day for no apparent reason, none of my 4 DVD drives on 3
different machines would recognize the disc. There were no scratches
or scuffs on the disc, it just stopped being readable, If this happened
to a HDD then the data would be recoverable but with a DVD, I don't
know what can be done. I suppose it is financially viable to make
copies of these types of discs and seal them away against this sort of
event but you think handling and storing the disc will mean it will
work for a long time but no.
Damon
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