cd / dvd storage ideas please ...

[weebroonieuk]

ok didnt know which forum to put this in but if it needs moved move it

ok what i want to do is start backing up all my media on my pc ( couiple hundred GB) onto dvd but i dont know where i would store them all need something that can keep them safe and organised what do you guys do sleeve book things or what ?

[mark22]

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The 240 cd box would be fairly safe i reckon.

[weebroonieuk]

nice one mate that could be just the ticket

[jsterling]

why not back them up to an external hard disk, which wont take up as much space and would be longer lasting.

[weebroonieuk]

they will all be backed up by several hard drives as my collection grows im hopeing the capaciry of drives gets a good bit bigger each time i fill one so i can keep old stuff on old drive and have new stuff and old stuff on a newer drive

then every 4 gb or so of new data i will put onto a dvd and bung it in the archive
plus it will be up in the loft or something and hard drives fail (power surges / cuts)

cd's and dvds if burned ok and u test them then there should be no reason for them to bad for years if they are never touched again

[blue..matt]

they will all be backed up by several hard drives as my collection grows im hopeing the capaciry of drives gets a good bit bigger each time i fill one so i can keep old stuff on old drive and have new stuff and old stuff on a newer drive

then every 4 gb or so of new data i will put onto a dvd and bung it in the archive
plus it will be up in the loft or something and hard drives fail (power surges / cuts)

cd's and dvds if burned ok and u test them then there should be no reason for them to bad for years if they are never touched again

ive got first gen DVDR's that are used for archive and some are starting to struggle to read, these are verbs aswell , someone said tha Dye on the suirface starts to change

[Agent]

ive got first gen DVDR's that are used for archive and some are starting to struggle to read, these are verbs aswell , someone said tha Dye on the suirface starts to change

How old are they ?
The dye doesnt last forever, and does degrade over time, but it shouldnt be a quick affair.
Do you know what Dye the disks use ?

[weebroonieuk]

only plan on reading from the disc once , after it has been written i will copy the files back to pc an check they work then disc will be packaged and put awayh and only took out if i lose all hard drive copies of my data i reckon i should be ok