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Optical drives becoming obsolete?
kamuixtv99:
I have tried it before, using hdd instead of optical disc. Doesn't work for me. That Seagate hdd was new I think it happened in 2009 it failed twice(replaced twice in a gap of 2 months). I lost all the files on it (lost all the files twice too), Of course it's not caused by a virus. It's a hardware problem. I tried to save my files but it's really freakin slow, so I had re-downloaded them again after I got a replacement. Since Sony closed down their optical disc factory I'll be using Taiyo Yuden, don't you trust this brand? Sure, I'll try another hdd again when 1TB (or bigger) here is lower than $50. A device that would be a 'throw-away' in 2 years is a big NO for me, with devices, it should last at least 5 or more (it's typical). We are talking about anime here? Yes it's ok for me if the recordable disc would be dead in 5 to 10 years time. Retail anime discs should last longer or forever. I have a collection of retail music discs bought 20 years ago and retail R1 DVDs (FY, kenshin, rayearth...what I care most is rayearth, the prices was like (crazy) BDs of today) bought 12 years ago they still work like a charm.
rostheferret:
^That's why you use RAID :P And I think you had some bad luck, I'm using a couple of 6 year old seagates and a 2 year old 2TB Hitachi for storage still going strong. I really need to get a backup for my Hitachi though, been meaning to do it for years :/
buchno:
Yeah, I've never lost a disk either, so you've been very unlucky.
Even so, I should be using RAID, but once bitten, twice shy is the saying, right?
revo:
I use RAID 0 and it's super awesome
significantly better performance and I naver had problems with it (2x Samsung F3 500GB)
rostheferret:
--- Quote from: revo on June 28, 2012, 09:35:06 AM ---I use RAID 0 and it's super awesome
significantly better performance and I naver had problems with it (2x Samsung F3 500GB)
--- End quote ---
Errr... not if we're talking about BACKUP solutions...
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