No question go for Harddrive. BUT don't put your trust on just one drive either. The power up and power down puts a lot of strain on the drive, you are just better to leave the drive on all the time. Better option would be a NAS with RAID setup.
I have had a few drives gone belly up, lucky I had them setup as RAID and had a backup of the backup. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Kevin Cozens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15-11-03 03:59 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > >> Looking at backing up a little less than 300 GB of files. Want to do >> one copy to 25 GB Bluray discs. >> > > I don't trust CDs and DVDs for backup. I don't think I would trust Bluray > either. I have had discs go bad on me over time. For that much data I would > use an external hard drive. > > -- > Cheers! > > Kevin. > > http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that > distract > Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're > | powerful!" > #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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