[Novalug] Looking for a cheap machine
Roy Wilson
roywilson1963@gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 18:08:37 EDT 2014
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Dave Paper <novalug@ginch.org> wrote:
> > I've got a pair of 20 gallon totes full of 100 DVD spindles of cold
> stored video. So if I ever get a petabyte drive, I might be able to keep
> it all hot at once... :)
>
> You are going to get to experience first hand just how long the data on
> those discs last. Probably not as long as you hope it will.
>
That's actually one of the reasons for the external drives. Backing up
that older DVD archive. I've already had the "unrecoverable error"
experience with old CD's.
At the moment, 2 of the 3tb drives are archival, the other is current.
Eventually I'll get more big externals, archive from DVD to them and then
power them down for shelf storage.
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