[Randy Yates]

Kompu Kid writes:

Hello All:

I have been scouring the Internet for the past few weeks to determine
what brand to use to archive some of my music that I transferred from
my LP's.

Most of the information that I found are several months old. I want
to summarize what I've found so far and ask others opinions as to if
anything has changed.

Here they a

* Taiyo Yuden for inexpensive disks.

* Some TDK, and Verbatim DVDs are made using Taiyo Yuden media.

* The TDK DVDs sold in Cosco in bulk are not made with Taiyo Yuden
media.

* Rima DVDs are also made with Taiyo Yuden media.

* MAN-A gold is the best and has the longest shelf life.

* DVD+R 's better than DVD-R in terms of error correction, etc.

Comments appreciated!

Deguza

For $60 you can buy a 320 GB hard drive. Using a lossless encoding
algorithm like FLAC, you can get well over 1000 CDs on it. Buy two,
using one as a backup. Then when one crashes, buy a new drive. Rinse,
lather, repeat.
--
% Randy Yates % "Midnight, on the water...
%% Fuquay-Varina, NC % I saw... the ocean's daughter."
%%% 919-577-9882 % 'Can't Get It Out Of My Head'
%%%% % *El Dorado*, Electric Light Orchestra
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com

[Randy Yates]

Randy Yates writes:
[...]
For $60 you can buy a 320 GB hard drive. Using a lossless encoding
algorithm like FLAC, you can get well over 1000 CDs on it. Buy two,
using one as a backup. Then when one crashes, buy a new drive. Rinse,
lather, repeat.

And if you're really paranoid, buy a third USB (external) drive and
store it off-site, so that a catastrophic event like fire will not
wipe you out.
--
% Randy Yates % "She's sweet on Wagner-I think she'd die for Beethoven.
%% Fuquay-Varina, NC % She love the way Puccini lays down a tune, and
%%% 919-577-9882 % Verdi's always creepin' from her room."
%%%% % "Rockaria", *A New World Record*, ELO
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com