It's not only about photos. Financial records, business transactions, family and personal data, all needs to be backed up. With an external hard disk you can make a mirror of your internal drive, store it in your safe or off premises. That does not preclude making DVD copies of specific files.
What i see here is a bunch of people arguing about what's best - Hard drives fail, DVD's are better, DVD's crack or break ... The bottom line is simple: be careful, make duplicate backups if the data is important, use whatever media works and makes you comfortable, and be prepared for the worst in any case. Shel > [Original Message] > From: William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 1/2/2006 2:25:48 PM > Subject: Re: DVDs > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stenquist" > Subject: Re: DVDs > > > >I had one external hard drive fail. I took it to a tech facility that > >offered recovery service. They wanted $3500 to recover the files. I passed > >on that. Now I back up everything on DVD. Two or more DVDs for important > >files. Plus a hard drive copy. > > I think if one wants to use hard drives as permanent back oup, it must be > realized that they will fail eventually. > I believe it was Herb Chong who mentioned on list that he does all his > archiving on two external drives, one being an image of the other, and that > he replaces them regularly, whether or not they fail. > I keep looking at my pictures and wonder if archiving them is a good > idea..... > > William Robb >
