[Ti] OT Durability of DVDs

[William Scammell]

[snip]
>Anyway, even a hard drive will eventually go bad.  You might get a 
>little more time out of it if it's not plugged in, but even so it 
>will eventually die, and if the controller on the drive dies 3 years 
>from now and you don't find out about it for 15 more, it might be 
>hard to find a new controller card to swap in to try and resurrect 
>the drive.  Somebody else had the best idea; keep multiple 
>generations of backups if your data is that important.  I would also 
>recommend using several different types of storage media; maybe MO, 
>for example.  And, of course, you should keep backups in multiple 
>locations.


multiple locations -- that's a good point. i neglected to mention 
that i keep the redundant HDD in a fire-proof box.


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