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Posted at 7:45 AM on Thursday 01/22/09 by
Ben
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NewEgg.com has the RiDATA 4.7GB 16X DVD-R 100 Packs Cake Box Disc on sale for $19 with free shipping. A good price for some name-brand discs that have good user reviews. Storage acceleration tests guarantee safe storage for more than 30 years.
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    LiveSquid - Posted 7:59 am PST 01/22/09 (2122 Posts)  Report Spam

    So, sometime in the next 30 years Im gonna have to copy all the data from these disks and re-store it somewhere else? Sounds like a blast. I thought cd and dvd was safe for a lot longer. No?

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    RavinDJ - Posted 8:24 am PST 01/22/09 (304 Posts)  Report Spam

    Trust me... in 30 years you'll have 1 terabyte SD cards... Actually... forget that... you'll have 512 terabyte SD cards or whatever else they'll think off... that measly 4.7GB will be all on hard drives and you won't need DVD's... this is, after all, just temporary storage (despite the fact that temporary means '30 years').

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    LiveSquid - Posted 8:43 am PST 01/22/09 (2122 Posts)  Report Spam

    Yeah, yeah, I know.. We'll be able to fit petabytes or even exabytes on drives by then. But Ill still have to copy the data from the disks. 'Sides.. I was teasing about the 30 years. I really did think they were viable long after 30 years.

    Are these good media, or should I stick to my other brand?

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    devnull4321 - Posted 9:31 am PST 01/22/09 (472 Posts)  Report Spam

    #3, RiData is a good brand. I used a lot of them. But now I prefer Verbatim brand.

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    danpi - Posted 10:00 am PST 01/22/09 (1133 Posts)  Report Spam

    On the other hand, good brand or not, no bargain.

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    nuisance - Posted 10:07 am PST 01/22/09 (10365 Posts)  Report Spam

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    superd00d3 - Posted 10:59 am PST 01/22/09 (3031 Posts)  Report Spam

    You will be luckly if your DVDRs last 30 years. TY and Verbatim claim their discs will last 100 years but I think that is a stretch.

    #6, movies are irrelevant. I store all of my family photos and videos on DVDRs. I really hope the media is dependable because the content is obviously irreplaceable. I make duplicate backups on different brands and periodically do a quality scan on them to make sure they are ok.

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    jontsai - Posted 11:34 am PST 01/22/09 (80 Posts)  Report Spam

    #7. Thanks for sharing those tips. Sounds like you are really dedicated. =)

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    dubucl - Posted 1:26 am PST 01/23/09 (334 Posts)  Report Spam

    That's a lot of porn.

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