Posted by John on 07/15/06 20:54

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:59:05 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs
<roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:31:41 +0100, John <cow@chicken.com> Gave us:
>
>>The HD drive is a good idea but I tend to think that hard drives are
>>more prone to failure.
>
>
> Hahahahaha.. You're gonna get a lot of comebacks on that one.

Maybe.

> Hard drives are the MOST reliable mass data storage devices on the
>planet. Bar none.

For me personally they haven't been unfortunately.

I am pretty sure though that on a television programme I saw on Sky
television here in the UK, they did a test on various forms of
storage; hard drives, CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, Flash Disks, Tape, Floppy Disk
etc to see which was the best media as far as data retention was
concerned.

They put the different storage medium through a variety of tests, and
in the end the one that withstood the most damaging tests and you were
still able to recover data off afterwards was the small Flash Disk.
All the other mediums couldn't stand up to the same rigorous tests
with any data still intact and retrievable.

John

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