Cartridges -> disk -> Cartridges come back??

[dharh]

loves2splooge said:

jack100 said:

dharh said:
Lets see. Pennies per gig (disc based, Direct download), or dollars per gig? Do the math.

ohh I agree with you, but this is the present, it could be reversed 10 years from now.

I would like to see flash media become cheaper than optical media one day because of how reliable it is. Who knows if that'll happen though. I was using an external (regular magnetic storage drive) hard drive for storage and boom, my expensive 1 TB external hard drive went kaput in a matter of months and my old 250 GB external hard drive (3 years old) is on it's last legs. I went back to using DVD-R to back up storage after my negative experiences with magnetic storage but we all know that DVD-R isn't exactly all that reliable either. I use my flash memory pen drive to back up the most important things (school and other important documents and files). Everything else (downloads and what not) on DVD-R.

How often were you using that external HD? I've been using the same external HDs for years at a time. Going back to DVD-R? I can't imagine how many discs you use up. I stopped using discs for backups years ago and I haven't looked back since.

Also, if you're going to use an external HD as a main storage device its imperative to use 2 HDs. One is the main HD, the other is a weekly backup image of said HD. There's no excuse for losing data.