I would have thought it would be less than 15 year to be honest.
The DVDs i have of important data will be dumped in a couple of year and replaced with either BluRay or HD-DVD disks. That way i can have much fewer disks to deal with.
Also if you are woried about disks deteriorating, you can always invest in medical/archival quality DVD-Rs. I don't know how much they are as you can't really get them through normal retailers. But they are supposed to be much more reliable in the long term.
Protein-resistant, no doubtOriginally Posted by Funkstar
I use DVDs for Linux distros..
Backing up Music Ect.
Gonna be buying a SATA RW when I upgrade set up.
IDE cables are highly annoying.
I can still remember all the lies I was told about SATA by the HDD manufacturers...
...including the 'single cable for both power and data' which I am still not happy about !
Heh, it's still a lot neater then IDE drives.
I'm wondering does anyone know where to get Taiyo Yuden DVDs in small quantities in London?
Does Yoyotech stock these and if not will they be made available?
Let me check with my guys and come back to you!
DVD's, i do for my mates
I use external storage device, the one u can hook up to your tv
find it less hassle than so many dvd's
My son and I make a lot of music, and there are usually dozens of "takes" before we are happy to convert to mp3, so DVDs are used in abundance here. I also use them to backup my DVD collection as we have youngsters here and my originals are too precious !
Backups of XP settings, my photos, DLd films, video taken on my Canon DV, complete website DLs - all dumped to DVD.
Cheers, David
I use them for archiving stuff that I probably don't want any more but for the cost a blank may as well keep. I also back up all my movies as well.
"You've gotta laugh when you fall off a sofa!"
i still prefer my external drive, u never know wen u gonna loose ur disk
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