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[Bloopity Bloop]

I have a few terabytes I'm looking to back up onto DVD and I was wondering what brands/discs you guys would use to do so.

I've been using Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim (not the India manufactured ones) exclusively but they are getting expensive.

[Skippy]

Me I would keep with the Taiyo Yuden if not try finding some cheap taiwainese brand. They will generally be better then Korean.

Also what kind of data are you storing. If you want to use some cheap DVD-rs you might want to use some sort of file redundancy program like ICE ECC.

[ChinaBoy]

Hard drives are so cheap. Use those, cheaper than DVDs, perhaps? hmmm

certainly more reliable, and easier to travel with

[pkang0202]

Optical storage is definitely not the way you should go for long term storage.

Buy a few hard drives. Copy all your data to the hard drives, and then put it in a safe place.

I'm sure the price/GB is only slightly higher than a DVDr. You will time and headache in the future. Also, a couple hard drives is much easier to carry than books/stacks of DVD's.

[Bloopity Bloop]

Optical data lasts for decades (test on the dyes TY uses supposedly have projected lifespans of longer than 100 years on well-burned, well-stored DVD+rs).

Harddrives last for what, 5, 6, 7 years at most? I dunno, maybe a few more years if left unaccessed and then I have to keep transferring old data to the new drives, which is a major pain and time suck.

I currently have a bunch of data on hard drives but I'm also accruing like 10, 20 gigs a night so it's not realistic to keep on storing them on drives. I already have a few thousand DVD+rs worth of data dating back to when the technology first came out and I can still access them without issue.

I download a lot of digital comics, TV shows, movies, keep a lot of raws off of my SLR, and store HD videos for my friends' start-up film crew.

I guess I'll stick to the TYs for now. I purchase them off http://www.supermediastore.com by the way. Great site that gives you an authentic TY/Verbatim discs.

The program I am using is ImgBurn--a program of choice on ClubCDFreaks.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[Skippy]

You might want to go the HD route for some things. TV shows, movies in avi or whatever file format I would probably put on DVD-R. Comic books and ebooks I would put on DVD-r with file correction program like ICE ECC. MP3s and music files store on HD as you will likely access them more ofter. The more often you access the more likely you will want on an HD.

[agoodmouse]

SDHC cards (memory cards that fit into digital cameras) are now 16gb and 32gbs and possibly higher now. They'd outlast any DVD or CDR.