[game_preservation] Preservation Media?

[Devin Monnens]

Here is a quick article on choosing media to preserve data on. I agree with
the article on the +R vs -R format for DVDs, and that gold discs, while
supposedly being better, are probably not that good of a buy considering the
other disc types are cheaper. However, I'm not quite sure where he's coming
from with his defense of Taio Yuden media. Of course, there are some
drawbacks to DVD as archival, mainly that you can't store much on them and
their read/write speed is rather slow. This and the discs scratch easily.

http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/10/30/how-to-choose-cddvd-archival-media

What are you using for archival? I've been sticking to ye olde standard Sony
DVD+R, but that's because they go on sale regularly. I don't know if they're
any good, but I suspected they were better than most other brands. I've been
sticking to Seagate for hard drives after having them recommended to me by a
data recovery company.

-Devin

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