Paul, I had lots of CDr and DVDr failures, not all due to counterfeit media. I lost some 70% of my scanned files over the years, and almost the same ratio of digitalized VHS tapes. My problem with the tapes is far worse, since they were discarded. I started doing multiple sets, and soon after the failures started using different brands of media to the same content, to be sure. My future plans lean to mirrored high capacity hds with DVDs to off-site backup. but they're not so cheap around here, nor the motherboards able to support in style what I'd like to use - some $2400 to achieve 4Tb in an intel set, and that's a lot of film.
A good friend is using external HDs as backup, plugged only to move the content then stored, and that seems safer than DVDs. May be my next step towards the mirror. Luiz Felipe luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:24:06 +0000, [email protected] escreveu: > Hi Luiz, > Have you had DVD discs fail? I have a lot of backups on DVD, and thus far > none have failed. Some are six or seven years old. I don't do mirrored > drives, but I backup all important photos on a second drive. So far, I > haven't lost anything, but Charles' message is motivating me to get caught up > on my DVD backups. > Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
