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Originally posted by Asher
It's trivial to transfer and expand/upgrade external HDDs every ~5 years.
HDDs have a (relatively) high short-term failure rate - I'd estimate 10% within 2 years, if I had to guess (sure there are stats out there somewhere). Obviously a RAID array is (much) safer, though i'm not sure if it becomes as safe as a CD; but it is twice as expensive.
I'd still recommend a HDD for any non-critical backup, don't get me wrong, but for critical backups HDD is not good enough.<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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I've never in my life had a HDD die. My "new" PC still has a 40GB drive from my 1998 PC...
Add in the fact that external backup HDDs are rarely used and I'd say you are fearmongering...
On the contrary I've lost files I'd backed up less than 5 years ago on CD. Quite a few CDs, actually. Some just rotted, some got scratched, etc. CD-Rs are probably the worst way to store data.
Pressed CDs are a different beast..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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