Don't count on DVDs, especially dual layer dvds. In my experience, (i owned a prepress service business, archiving gigs of data every day for clients) average off the shelf DVDs had a pretty high failure rate, around 18% when stored in jewel cases in a climate controlled environment for 1 year. Dual layer were worse. I did find however that archival DVDs (single layer Mitsui gold to be specific) stored as above have had a 100% data retention rate thus far. At more than a dollar a pop when bought in bulk they're not cheap, but a decent option. Still as stated by others, an external hard drive is your simplest if not least expensive option.
I Tunes Backup
After loading about 500 CD'S I started to think about a way to back up My music. I have my music on a external hard drive now, [ a Mac Mini system ] I see most of you have either a second hard drive or a raid system for backup . I also thought about that way to go but went another way and picked up a external DVD burner and make backup DVD duel layer disk's . I think this is a little simpler for me to do than set up a raid system i know it may be a pain to load all the data back on to a new hard disk when it fails but. I want to know if anybody else is doing this or do you just have several hard drives or a raid set up. Any thoughts on backing up your music for now I own all the CD'S I ripped to the hard drive but that may change [ download , library , friends CD'S ] thanks for your thoughts Marc
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