Re: Seagate Clunk Of Death

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:10:06 GMT, "Dorothy Bradbury"
<dorothybradbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One note is that there are many factors involved...

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This applies to all hard drive makers, so act accordingly...
o Hard drives are cheap -- having a backup is cheap
o Multiple vendors exist -- make the backup a different brand

Yes good point, that was why I went for USB drives, they could be used
on both boxen, easier/quicker to transfer stuff than over ethernet,
one box has a faster burner than t'other, I *was* supposedly going for
reliability, I'll trial some different manufacturers' disks on future
purchases.

I've been using Verbatim media forever, back since floppies actually
*were* floppy, had generally low levels of failure, I have a couple of
sites bookmarked which discuss performance of different dyes on CDs
and DVDs.

http://www.wilhelm-research.com/index.html

is an interesting source of information on dye/pigment life of inkjet
and other prints and photographs, from personal experience some brands
of films from when I did trials in the eighties have survived much
better than others, likewise there are huge differences in films I
inherited from my father going back to the fifties/sixties, and
anecdotally I had a collection of postcards nailed to the wall, some
faded within weeks, others still looked original after many years, but
whatever the media entropy will get you in the end . . .
.

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