JulianL Wrote: > Yeah. I hear bad things about CD-R backups all the time, I've been using CD-R since 1997, and it has proved to be a very stable medium. I think people who have bad experiences with it have been unlucky.
JulianL Wrote: > > I have no idea whether DVD media are any better. You've got to hope > that being "next generation" that they learned from at least some of > their mistakes with the CD media but maybe that's just wishful > thinking. It's still early days, but in my experience DVD-R (I actually use DVD+R) is significantly less predictable than CD-R. DVD media seems extemely variable and there's a huge amount of really poor quality media out there, whereas CD-R media seems much more stable, presumably due to its maturity and the less critical tolerances involved. But having said that, I do in fact back up my FLACs to DVD+R (using only Taiyo Yuden media) and, touch wood, I haven't had any go bad on me yet. -- cliveb _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
