Char Jackson
Fri, 01 Dec 2017
05:17:48 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

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As for the media types I trust most, it's hard drives, hands down.
Flash drives are a close second and optical media don't even make
the list.

I'm obviously different and very old school.. I don't trust my hard
disks first and foremost, nopers.. I don't fully trust my usb sticks on
their own either. I trust multiple backups on more than one type of
media the most.

File this, I guess, under the heading of We're All Different.


I'm surprised nobody so far has mentioned bitrot when it comes to
optical media. And, it's not restricted to burned discs, either.
Various commercial audio cds have been known to suffer from it. And,
theres' no going back on that. Once it begins to take hold, some data
has already been lost. It's a race to see what/if any you can salvage
from it.

Sorry for my very late reply to this old thread.


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