I appreciate your comments. I've been enlightened. Thanks.
ronald ferguson wrote:
Joseph,
How long is a piece of string? As I understand, the time it will last depends
on the quality of the disc, the more expensive the longer they last, at least
in theory. Anything from 2 to 10 years. I also believe that Rewritables retain
data for an even shorter period of time - maybe up to 5 years.
I don't really know about DVDs but I suspect that are not a lot different in
this respect to CDs. I use a usb stick, an external Hard Drive and also MS
Spaces (on-line storage)
Ron Ferguson
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:48:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backing Up Legacy Files
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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