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[Steve Swann]

Oh and as for CD rot, when I mp3'ed roughly 300 of my CDs last year, I found that I had rot on maybe 5 disks, and in most cases it only affected the last track or two (I think only 1 disk was completely hosed).  Also some very long disks that I thought had rotted out the last few tracks proved readable by newer drives with better DAE (a $25 LITE-ON drive kicked the ass of my 5 year old Plextor).

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
Date: Friday, Aug 22, 2008 5:56 pm
Subject: Re: +++stop press+++advertising aid item french hassan+++one man   isolator+++
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On 22 Aug 2008, at 16:26 , Paul Mather wrote:
 Are your two hard drives from different manufacturers, or at least  
 from different batches if the same model?  There's an increased  
 chance of simultaneous/close together failures otherwise.  I'd hate  
 for all your eggs to be lost in one go...


Same manufacturer, I think, but different models and all. Purchased  
in different countries, I think!  I tend to keep the backup drive  
disconnected and powered down except when actually doing a periodic  
backup.

Good points, though!  You can never have too much redundancy.

(I've always got the CDs for most things, of course, though re- 
ripping them would be pain!  But of course the CDs are subject to the  
evil CD rot, vinyl gets scratched, tapes wear thin or get  
magnetized ... and a house fire would really screw it all! ;))

Cheer,s
Carl

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