7 Dec
2000
7 Dec
'00
6:32 p.m.
With the talk of CD life, I was contemplating saving data
(including all my old software, ie MS/IBM DOS 1.1 -> 6.22).
Also, we've begun to digitize the family pictures.
It seems to me that nowadays we buy new hard drives with a few
times more capacity every year or two. We also have several
computers, many networked (at home, this is).
I think that we may just keep all the info on hard drives, with
an occasional CD-R backup, and it will get duplicated so many
times over the years that we would be hard pressed to lose any
data.
Music/Video may be another story...
Jim
7 Dec
7 Dec
6:49 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, J Forbes wrote:
It seems to me that nowadays we buy new hard drives
with a few
times more capacity every year or two. We also have several
computers, many networked (at home, this is).
I think that we may just keep all the info on hard drives, with
an occasional CD-R backup, and it will get duplicated so many
times over the years that we would be hard pressed to lose any
data.
And then one day the box it's stored in gets bumped a little too hard, or
when you try to fire it up in ten years something on it blows, or...?
I can think of worse ways to archive data, but I wouldn't want to trust
anything long term to a hard drive. Unless you kept the data "alive"
meaning you kept it stored on a computer that is constantly being
backed-up and in service.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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