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October 24th, 2010, 10:17 AM | #1 |
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Storage Media (DVDR, HDD, etc.) - discussion
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October 24th, 2010, 10:39 AM | #2 |
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October 24th, 2010, 10:45 AM | #3 |
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I've given up with DVDs for archiving. Quicker and easier to run redundant HDDs. A 2 TB disk at say 100 GBP comes out at 5 pence per gigabyte. A DVD at say 4.3 GB and 20pence each is a bit under 5 pence per gigabyte. The clincher for me is when you have to load up a new HDD with DVDs. A Terabyte drive will take a long time with you sitting there swapping 250 disks, whereas for HDD to HDD just connect up overnight and it's done by breakfast.
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October 24th, 2010, 12:32 PM | #4 |
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I get them from play.com, or sometimes ASDA or Tesco. You can get Verbatim for roughly the same price - 200 for ~£33.
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storage media thread created, discussion went off topic in existing thread
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A 2TB drive is now $150 (Canadian) and an enclosure is available for $40. The equivalent in archival DVDs would be over $500! I'm a professional photographer in a large facility that has to archive TBs of data (video and still) a month and we moved to hard drives last year saving a lot of money. They are also a lot handier, searchable. and take up less room.
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I buy out of Maplin usually, because they tend to be cheaper. Though tesco do have some great bargain offers on at times. I never buy cheap brand makes because they don't last and give errors when writing.
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I use hard drives for archiving. It's obviously more convenient for large amounts of associated data than DVD. But whereas I wouldn't bother to back up DVDs once verified - provided they aren't mishandled it's unlikely that one will go bad, and it's highly improbable that I'd physically lose one - I would certainly keep a second copy of any dataset stored on magnetic disk that I couldn't afford to lose, otherwise a drive failure will wipe out a lot of eggs in one basket.
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I always burn on Verbatim or Sony DVDR, didn't have a problem yet..
Recently I noticed Taiyo Yuden is sold under the JCV brand in Europe..
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I've given up on DVD-/+R, as said before HDD is just as cost effective, more immediate access, and physically more compact
I think the jury is out as to whether DVDs are safer or not, I heard that they only last around 10 years before you start getting errors Prior to giving them up, I used only verbatim, as the taiyo yuden dye they used at the time was best, they then started using MCC, and the quality started dropping off, esp. with the made in india examples. I got loads of disks where there were physical dye imperfections, they wrote without error, but didn't give me a good feeling for long term data retention now I use external HDDs in conjunction with a sumvision cyclone MKV adapter, much tidier solution than 1000s of DVDR lying around, and completely silent as there is no fan in sight (or sound). 5 external HDD holding over 800 DVD9 in the same space as a shoebox note also that the external HDD option gives you the ability to store DVD9s for the same cost per GB, whereas a dual layer writeable DVD is much more expensive per GB (£1 per disk instead of 20p ?) |
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