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[OM] Re: Progress report on crashed hard drive

Subject: [OM] Re: Progress report on crashed hard drive
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:08:32 -0300

My Kodachrome 25 and 64 slides haven't crashed yet and some are 40 years
old. Seems to me that CDs, DVDs, HDDs, etc are risky storage devices. Film
might just be a less risky option.

jh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 June, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Progress report on crashed hard drive


>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> > People who really are really careful carry a lap top and then burn a
> > backup copy on CD or DVD when going portable because that hard disk
> > could fail too. I take a chance because I am a bit lazy and I carry
> > one of the so called picture wallets, a FlashTrax 40Gig and risk the
> > possible loss of pictures from a single trip. If I had not already
> > made that choice I would get one of the much spiffier Epson P-2000s.
> >
> > At home, I have chosen the hard drive back up of the hard drive
> > solution both because of the ease of doing it and all the reports of
> > CD-R failure. As far as I know recordable DVDs use a similar
> > technology and are unreliable too.
>
> Few months ago I have transferred over 70 CD-Rs to DVD and  non of the
CD-R
> are non-readable. A few of them were over 4 years old, I worry about hard
> disk more than CD-R. I had three hard disk failures in 12 years. Although
> two of them are over-heat due to careless use.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
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