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From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> People who really are really careful carry a lap top and then burn a
> backup copy on CD or DVD when going portable because that hard disk
> could fail too. I take a chance because I am a bit lazy and I carry
> one of the so called picture wallets, a FlashTrax 40Gig and risk the
> possible loss of pictures from a single trip. If I had not already
> made that choice I would get one of the much spiffier Epson P-2000s.
>
> At home, I have chosen the hard drive back up of the hard drive
> solution both because of the ease of doing it and all the reports of
> CD-R failure. As far as I know recordable DVDs use a similar
> technology and are unreliable too.
Few months ago I have transferred over 70 CD-Rs to DVD and non of the CD-R
are non-readable. A few of them were over 4 years old, I worry about hard
disk more than CD-R. I had three hard disk failures in 12 years. Although
two of them are over-heat due to careless use.
C.H.Ling
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