On Thursday 09 July 2020 07.54:26 deloptes wrote: > Michele Calgaro via trinity-users wrote: > > Harddisks do fail from time to time, that is why I suggested you could > > use more than one. The likelihood of 2 or more HD failing at the same > > time + your main HD to fail at the same time as well is super low. Don't go for a promotion and buy several from the same production lot. Did that one time and the three discs died the same week... So super low but possible. > Last year I checked many backup cds from the past before throwing away. > Some written in 2002 were working and most written in 2007 were failing. The fist recordable CDs were *a lot* more expensive then. I guess you get what you pay for. > The hard drives written back then still work. I got some Samsungs that would never power on after a few years on the shelf. So, for very important data, I backup on everything :) When you loose data and have no backup you can curse your own stupidity. But when you know you are secure because you have a backup and then your backup is unreadable... Thierry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
