Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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Chris Jones wrote:
Is there an altogether better/smarter/reliabl-er solution?
IMHO, the smartest, fastest, most reliable and cheapest solution is to
use external hard disks like usb-disks. You could reuse the same disk
for more or less unlimited rw-cycles for an average lifetime of at least
around 3 years (probably much longer, since it is not in permanent use).
By the time it dies it has quite certain been much cheaper and
environment friendly than all those dvd-rws plus the burner. Current
hard disks have capacities of more than hundreds of DVD's.
This is also much more expensive, if one is doing real backups.
A real backup (as opposed to simply a second copy nearby) is
stored off site. So, one would need to rotate external discs
for this to be a viable backup means. Usually one uses at
least three copies, so one would need three external drives
which one rotated.
Mike
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