[Ti] OT Durability of DVDs

[William Scammell]

At 8:42 PM -0400 2003-09-10, Michael Bigley wrote:
>I once left a floppy in my shirt pocket; it went through the washer 
>and dryer. The metal "protector" broke off, but I stuck the thing in 
>my Mac IIci and copied the data off with no problem (Don't try this 
>at home, haha). I have been contemplating putting the hundreds of 
>floppies I have onto a couple of CDs, but guess that wouldn't be 
>worth the time, eh? Do hard drives degrade without use?  They are so 
>cheap now, perhaps a hot swap device would be the best bet on long 
>term storage???

it would save a lot of physical storage space to ditch the floppies though.

30-50 floppies probably takes up as much physical space as a FW back 
up drive, and drives, as you noted, are small money (try dealmac.com).

just a thought.


b

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