I heard 5 years, then I heard 2 years, then some-one told me they'd had
disks go bad in under one year. I'm down to thinking no-years. I think
it's one of those things where if it works - great! If it doesn't, good
thing I had another plan. I use external hard-drives, flash-drives,
online storage (Mozy) and email.
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Joseph wrote:
No, Disc, CD and DCD are to me one and the same. When speaking of a
hard drive (or HD), that's the term I use. Sorry for the
misunderstanding.
When you say long term, just how long is long term, short term...
etc? Maybe a place online... a storage place. Don't they have
those? And they should be hard drives (HD)
ronald ferguson wrote:
Joseph,
I'm afraid your message is not clear. Initially you mention CDs and
DVDs for storage and then refer to disc. by which I take it you mean
hard drives.
Respecfully, I would suggest the neither CDs nor DVDs are suitable
for long term storage. As well as the potential problems which have
been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, they loose their retentive
properties over time (just like me).
Ron Ferguson
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:47:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backing Up Legacy Files
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Your best deal (imho) would be CD's.... set up to act like a hard
drive. Or if you don't mean to replace them, and only wish to store the
files, then I'd burn them to DC's or DVD's and leave the disc open so
more can be added.
Also, I would save certain things on a disc. Photos on one, census
records on another, death, marriage and birth certificates on their own
discs, or if there's not all that many, put these certificates on one
disc... grave markers on yet another. That way it works like a filing
cabinet....
Joseph
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