As an electronic musician I've amassed a large set of composition files, a set of data that only gets bigger. I don't ever want to lose this data or have a project I've written end up corrupted and unavailable.
Should I use archival (gold) DVDs? What a hassle (with 200GB+ of files, and each DVD only ~5gb, thats 40 tedious burn operations, asumming all of them work perfectly!).
How about a 200 or 300gb hard drive? How long will inert, unused data stay around uncorrupted on a regular consumer hard drive?
I'm expecting that in 10 years or so, I'll move this data somewhere else, so the longevity of the media only needs to be guaranteed up that point.
Thanks!
2007-06-10
08:43:08
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josh w
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