14 Apr
2010
14 Apr
'10
4:31 p.m.
On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
Why would you leave them turned off for any more time than absolutely
necessary?
Pat
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For anything
important, I wouldn't trust just optical media.
External hard drives are so inexpensive with such a large capacity.
Storing important things on a couple instances of magnetic media,
perhaps in additional to optical, might be a safer way to preserve
them. (A couple big external drives, stored in a couple of safe,
offsite, locations etc).
And you leave them some years without turning on, the heads glue to
the disk surface and bye bye.