Gareee opened this issue on Mar 14, 2008 · 83 posts
bopperthijs posted Sat, 15 March 2008 at 7:19 AM
- I'm not being funny, but what do you other peeps do once you've installed a product, do you just bin it or what???
I have a Posermap on the harddisk of my computer where I keep all acquired content, and keep two (!) synchronised copies on two different external harddisks. I want to make backups on DVD, but I have more than 30GB of content, so that's a lot of work.
There are stories about the lifetime of DVD's, but in my experience if you use a good quality and keep them dark and dry, you keep them for at least ten years, which is more then the average garanteed lifespan of a harddisk. I have backup-CD of more than 11 years old, which are readable without any problem. I had one CD that was exposed to direct sunlight and got damaged, but I still could read parts of it. There are programs that make it possible to recover data from damaged CD's.
Bopper.
-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?