My Kodachrome 25 and 64 slides haven't crashed yet and some are 40 years
old. Seems to me that CDs, DVDs, HDDs, etc are risky storage devices. Film
might just be a less risky option.
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 June, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Progress report on crashed hard drive
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> > People who really are really careful carry a lap top and then burn a
> > backup copy on CD or DVD when going portable because that hard disk
> > could fail too. I take a chance because I am a bit lazy and I carry
> > one of the so called picture wallets, a FlashTrax 40Gig and risk the
> > possible loss of pictures from a single trip. If I had not already
> > made that choice I would get one of the much spiffier Epson P-2000s.
> >
> > At home, I have chosen the hard drive back up of the hard drive
> > solution both because of the ease of doing it and all the reports of
> > CD-R failure. As far as I know recordable DVDs use a similar
> > technology and are unreliable too.
>
> Few months ago I have transferred over 70 CD-Rs to DVD and non of the
CD-R
> are non-readable. A few of them were over 4 years old, I worry about hard
> disk more than CD-R. I had three hard disk failures in 12 years. Although
> two of them are over-heat due to careless use.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
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