[DM-MUG] Burning CDs & DVDs - burning

[Darcy Baston]

Yep. Single media setups aren't as good as a multiple device setup. My
HD experience buries my negatives in user-made optical media though.
Maybe I've just been an exception but I've never owned a hard drive
that died or lost any data on me:

A 10MB drive from 1986 to 1992 (x86 8mhz DOS, given away),
A 120MB Seagate from 1993 to 1995 (Amiga 1200, given away),
A 850MB Toshiba from 1995 to 2003 (Amiga 1200,sold),
A 13Gig Fujitsu from 2000 to today (iMac DV SE 400mhz,*),
A 40 Gig Western Digital from 2003 to today (iBook 14" 933mhz,*).

Now I've got what the G5 2GHz Dual core come stock with (7200rpm) and
a new SATA-II Seagate I bought a couple months ago.

I've lost many CDs though. They'd be just fine one month, I could
access the data once a week or so, and then they'd sit for 3 months in
a zipped up CD folder thing, and the next time I brought some out,
some wouldn't read. The story repeated on multiple computers with
multiple burners.

Where I have good magnetic experiences, optical doesn't like me much.
:) I think I'll skip that media format and go from magnetic to flash
or however that's classified when it's ready.

Oh wait! I have to take some of what I said back. I had a 20GB iPod
who's drive refused to get out of infinite-click-loop and had to get
exchanged. I did lose one after all!

On 4/21/06, Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at mchsi.com> wrote:
> I would not say that anything with a hard drive is reliable, especially
> an external hard drive.