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Don't burn to disk anymore, dvd's take too much space. |
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As an ironic twist, I don't buy Geezus' scaremongering against hdd. Its not hard to find reliability tests for media, and i'm a little confused as to how an idle hard disk is meant to fail at a faster rate than the pretty rapid cd-r/dvd-r decay rate*? (magnetic vs crapnetic, there's a reason companies use tape
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He'll be getting his butler backing them all up onto his PS3 before long anyway, no doubt
I'm still not believing many of the disks will be CRC free from the original batch if they are 3-4years+, unless he's invested masses of money on top of the range media.
There's nothing against DVD-r backups, as long as you buy expensive media and back them up every set number of years; lower your burn speed to most optimum and then verify after every burn then store them in tempature/humity controlled environments if you want to push them to 5+ years. I just value my time a heck of a lot more than to waste the time micromanaging, archiving (boy is it tedious adding movies from dvdrs to a movie archiver, so much so i stopped and am now 100DVDrs behind) and the physical space doing that. Just aint worth it for a fundamentally weaker backup policy imo.
As long as your not keeping your hdd in some retarded all day, every day spincycle (unless you've got redunancy of course), it will easily out last 5 years. I have loads that are knocking on 15years that i can still boot, although at that age you'd be silly to keep critical files on them.
The only cdr media from 6+ years ago that reads for me is verbatim (the others are extremely flakey, but the rips are so crap by todays standards i've replaced everything i've got on cdr anyway)
My DVD-r backups are mostly a lot more recent, but doing a simple read test (use one of the nero tools) shows errors on hit and miss ratios. Maybe that was the pioneer 105 in exclusively screw-spud with short term media mode? Certainly doesn't sound likely through (read: it isn't just me)
There's nothing to stop you backing up the best stuff onto DVD-r too, i often do and i'm very often picking up and shoving them on discs for my friends. Since, you know, one of the other benefits is read/write management, so you can delete nukes when better versions are out, and move them around, and mass migrate to a newer location. There's nothing to stop you buying a new hdd in 3,4,5 years if your sceptical and then shifting your entire data to the newer media
etc. etc.
It goes on and on, i've yet to find any real criticism of the whole procedure that isn't, ironically, largely scaremongering. It costs slightly more, but then again, i'd think people value their time as much as (probably more than
) I do.
The concept of loosing an entire hdd of movies would be a pisser, but pure stupidity is a hell of a lot more likely than hdd failure. Lets assume that you aren't stupid, as long as you keep the hdd free from dust, excessive heat or strong magnetic/static sources then the fact its never used means its not just going to implode one day
electronic faults come from heat or environments damage, heat is the one that's not so preventable since using something electrical always produces heat, which comes from use. Its not going to be constantly used however, just like your not going to constantly have a dvdr in your drive.
I back stuff up from my network drives that don't have redunancy in case you were wondering
So yeah, scaremongering i think is more at hdd as a medium because its now an affordable and effective storage medium (new to people) than against DVDr. Failure fears is largely pinned to hdds based largely upon questionable associations with actively/heavily used drives.
My 2cents, DVDr is fine, as long as you realise its not going to last forever, sometimes not over 2 or 3 years and you need to spend time organising and nannying the process. I'd advise simply to clearly think about other storage solutions' benefits, and think about efficiency, waste, life span and try and weed out overly subjective opinions from the useful info that relates to how you back up (tis the net after all).
Maybe look at your old DVDr collection with a analysis tool or simply copy files from the medium to your hdd and see if you get errors if you are sceptical of hdd?
@Nero / nero express,
Actually Record Now is often cited as a better burn engine. I have to admit, looking at some of the graphs for media i've done in Record Now has been better than nero. Just like Alcohol seems to handle images better than nero. Nero / Nero Express is the same thing, what evers you poison, but maybe look at some other applications? Popular isn't always the best for your burner