robertwallace Wrote: > I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as > production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure > > that's no longer the case... > > Any way, when I ripped my CD collection for the 4th (and final time) -- > > to FLAC -- I backed up the FLAC files onto DVD. Now, as I rip new > purchases, I hold a copy of the FLACs in a directory until I have > enough > to fill another DVD and I burn those, too. Of course, the ulitmate > off-line backup of a CD, is the CD itself. Mine go into a box in the > basement. (belt and suspenders) > > Robert >
>From what I've read of recent tests, you'll probably run into problems with the DVD media degrading before the spare HDD gives up. My personal approach to this problem (I'm currently at 150GB and growing fast) is to keep two complete copies (one on my main desktop PC, one on my HTPC in the living room). Every time I rip a new CD I run a script to sync the two up. If one of the drives was to die, the chances are I'd have time to buy a replacement before the other one did - seeing as my current stats are 2 dead drives in 15 years of computing :) -- radish _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
