Julian - can I recommend that you re-verify your DVDs after a few months, or even every 6 months?
You make valid points about upgrading to higher capacity optical storage in the future and being able to survive a few bad blocks etc. but from recent painful experience of CD-R backups I tend to distruct any optical backup medium other than DVD-RAM. In my case I had files backed up to CD-R which were made less than a year ago and due to a disk failure (non RAID - bah!) I had to restore the files form these CD-R's to find they that several had CRC errors :( These CD-R's weren't no-name blanks but TDK, had been kept in a cool, dry and dark cupboard and the data verified upon creation so either the TDK discs were substandard and deteriorated rapidly over time, the burner used was defective or it's just a fact - don't rely on CD-R for long term archiving! Not sure if the same should apply to DVD-R, but my experience of CD-R means I have little faith in DVD-R which I see as just a bigger version of CD-R, with the same potential problems! Backing up to another hard disk is probably the most cost effective and least troublesome method of archiving a music library. Even with my DVD-RAM and tape drives I'll end up swapping a few disks and tapes, which means I'll backup less often than I should. -- Milhouse _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
