MarzSyndrome wrote:
Dudley wrote:
About 30% of my 0-3 year old DVDRs were all or partially unreadable when I moved to HDD very recently. They were kept in Caselogic wallet in my room the entire time.
Must be your choice of media brand, mate. I've got old TDK CDs and DVDs from as far back as '03/'04 (I believe I even have a few CDs from '02 too) that still perform very healthily to this day. Me and TDK seem to go a long way - I currently use their printable DVD-Rs for instance. And I've used Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden in the past - I make sure I read all the reviews and only go for trustworthy brands. Bit difficult if you really need dual-layer, however.
Yes, SOME of mine from that long were fine. I found CDs are CONSIDERABLY better than DVDs.
Recommended is TeraCopy which unlike explorer is able to (just about) skip just the files that don't work on a disk.
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.phpAnother tactic would be to use PARSets, if you lose a file you can probably recover it using the others.
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/Quote:
Now these things I've heard of before and I'm very impressed. Are there any IDE-compatible devices though? I've got a few old HDs left laying dormant on a shelf still and hope to try and access the old data on them once more in the future.
I don't believe the IDE standard mandates consistent placement of the plugs on the back of the drive, the SATA one does.
Mark X wrote:
Given the rapidly falling cost of memory, it shouldn't be too long before just buying new SDHC cards will be enough to solve everyone's problems. Unless of course there's some sort of problem with the retention on them that I don't know about. Oh, plus they're a right bugger to label up with 8GB's worth of file information.
To a degree, they're still slower and probably more fragile than the HDD.
As for labelling, just stick a number on there and use Where is it?
http://whereisit-soft.com/