norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2006/10/21/cheapMediahttp://norman.walsh.name/2006/10/21/cheapMedia/comments.atom2012-05-23T11:20:59.503231ZComment 1 on /2006/10/21/cheapMediahttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012006-10-21T22:33:13Z2006-10-21T22:33:13ZAlbda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

I've decided that using optical media as backups is a recipe for disaster and it doesn't even have to be cheap media to fail - I used to back-up my mp3 collection to CDs and had a load of it on relatively expensive memorex CDs that all began to turn transparent after a couple of years and were useless... and no they weren't kept in direct sunlight or any other harsh conditions. The weird thing is all my really cheap optical media still works to this day it seems.

Hard disk space is cheaper now, so I've decided to buy enough external disk storage for backups. It's also a lot easier to run a disk check on a 500 gig drive than that amount of optical media every month, and it's re-writable.