Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dennis, I'm not Brian, but the answer turns on what you call the near future. Five years out CD's will be very hard to find and new computers will not read them. So, everything that is currently on a CD will need to be moved to a DVD or whatever is next in the next five years. Of course, you could transfer all your CD's to a USB hard drive and then store the hard drive for a few years until the BlueRay/HD wars play out and we know which will be the standard. On 6/5/07, Dennis Kushner <denik@comcast.net> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com