Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/05

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Subject: [Leica] Re: DVD failure
From: denik at comcast.net (Dennis Kushner)
Date: Tue Jun 5 20:19:07 2007
References: <200706031154.l53BsMY0055169@server1.waverley.reid.org> <E2975FBA-B9AA-484B-B583-E54BE1F52978@optonline.net> <36CF90FB7E68D89AE48F48F6@hindolveston.reid.org>

Brian, Will the new "blue ray DVD's make the DVD's used today obsolete 
in the near future?

Dennis


On Jun 5, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Brian Reid wrote:

>
>> Remember you can?t rely on hard drives. Despite the fact that the 
>> cost/GB
>> is extremely attractive, drives do have a relatively high failure rate
>
> Only if you leave them turned on. If you turn them off most of the 
> time, only spinning them up sporadically, they will last a long time. 
> The whole trick to using hard drives for long-term storage is to keep 
> them in an airtight box and not in a computer.
>
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Replies: Reply from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Re: DVD failure)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: DVD failure)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Re: DVD failure)