Good Point. One needs to keep the old stuff updated into current technologies though. I know of individuals that have information stored on reel to reel tapes that have little possibility of ever being copied to current media leave alone being reformated into a usable format.
Just about 10 years ago $150 is what a 500 MB Maxtor drive would cost. Having the much denser drives now changes the criteria concerning backup and archival methods. DVD's, regardless of being -R or +R, still seem flaky to me. Perhaps as the technology matures (increased reliability) along with a magnitude increase of density then I will take another look at utilizing DVD technology for archiving.
I just bought two 500 GB drives ($139 each) last night for the very same backup strategy that you suggest. I plan to keep one offsite and the other in my library in a large book size box that looks like a book, but is designed for holding whatever booty one desires to put into it.
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Good Point. One needs to keep the old stuff updated into current technologies though. I know of individuals that have information stored on reel to reel tapes that have little possibility of ever being copied to current media leave alone being reformated into a usable format.
Lucky77
Just about 10 years ago $150 is what a 500 MB Maxtor drive would cost. Having the much denser drives now changes the criteria concerning backup and archival methods. DVD's, regardless of being -R or +R, still seem flaky to me. Perhaps as the technology matures (increased reliability) along with a magnitude increase of density then I will take another look at utilizing DVD technology for archiving.
I just bought two 500 GB drives ($139 each) last night for the very same backup strategy that you suggest. I plan to keep one offsite and the other in my library in a large book size box that looks like a book, but is designed for holding whatever booty one desires to put into it.
Lucky77