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I buy by brand - i've never had a single problem with Imation or Verbatim. Even big brands like Sony get bad reports from time to time, that's why I stick with the specialist brands above.
depending on how big your audio collection it might be just easier going with an external HD.
my second choice would be going to DVD-R. If you don't currently own a dvd burner hold off til the dual layer drives and media become readily available and snatch one of those since they'll hold about 9 gigs each versus about 4 (4.4GB really, but with some overhead it is closer to 4) that are sold now. I know Pioneer makes a dual layer dvd burner, but i haven't seen the blank media anywhere so i wouldn't bother with them now.
I wouldn't even bother with CD-R's nowadays. one DVD can hold about 6 CDs.
also, DVDs write data faster. DVD 1x = 1350kb/sec CD 1x=150kb/sec
an 8x DVD burner (readily available today) burns at about 72x CDR which don't exist.
the fastest CD burner to my knowledge is 48x.
With the prices for high capacity disk drives coming down recently 200GB for $119 at NewEgg I would rate the convenience of a backup hard drive very high.
It takes significant time to back up all audio files and then create some kind of master index in case you really need to restore a lost file. Doing the management of incremental backups on an ongoing basis is also a no brainer with a additional hard drive.
If it really comes to a desaster then the time to restore and the manual task of changing the DVDs will also be pretty tedious.
It's not only a matter of convenience, but also safety.
If you do choose to use a hard drive for backup purposes, I suggest that you check it regularly, since magnetic storage are much more prone to failure or data corruption than optical storage.
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Originally Posted by mkmelt: ACHTUNG - ALLES KOPFPHONERLISTENERS
Alles kopfphonerlisteners non-technischens! Das tubenmachine is nicht for gefengerpoken und mittengrabben. Oderwise is easy schnappen der springenverk, blowenfus, und poppencap, mit spitzensparken. Gewerken inside der tubenmachine is fur der experten only. Is nicht fur geverken inside by das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken amateuren keepen das cotton-picken hands in das pockets. Just relaxen, enjoyen der musik, und vatchen das pretty glowentubes.
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I agree that magentic devices are not the best choice for archival purposes that you want to take to a vault to make your audio treasures available to your grandgrandchildren.
On the other hand I would not mind rewriting the whole drive every month in the background since it does not really create any work for me and I capture all the deltas this way.
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