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Posted by ST on 12/30/05 12:54
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damon" <todamon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.video.dvdr,rec.video.dvd.tech,uk.media.dvd
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: DVD versus hard drive
> 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
At around 5-10 for a spindle of 25 DVD-Rs you could always take 2 copies of
the data and lock one away as a double backup.
Although I too would rather keep it all on a Hard Disk. I have a DVD Writer
too, but I backup all my critical data to an external USB Hard Disk
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