[game_preservation] Preservation Media?

[Andrew Armstrong]

Anything I upload to the IA I have on an external HDD. I notably need to 
get this sorted and, like my normal backups, have a dual copy or buy a 
HDD with in built RAID-1.

DVD's basically take too long to use, as you've stated :) as well as 
consumer grade ones having problems lasting decades of time (although 
other non-videogame stuff I burn I just make two copies of, and say 
"cest la vie" if it is unreadable).

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> 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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