Well I have few external drives but somehow I do not trust them as much as I trust DVDs (yeah I am sole person, as of now, who voted DVDs). I know that a DVD also perish on its own in due course of time but HDDs have ditched me on important occasions.
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Well I have few external drives but somehow I do not trust them as much as I trust DVDs (yeah I am sole person, as of now, who voted DVDs). I know that a DVD also perish on its own in due course of time but HDDs have ditched me on important occasions.
I also suggest that Writing very very important data to CD/DVD etc.
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absolutely, movies, games, songs etc can be downloaded again...no need to back them up
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I backup movies of 1080p only....& also games if they have high replay value
but waste of time & money doing the same again
Also if you have downloaded something with very few seeders, chances are 1-2 years later, you won't get that so easily, may be even impossible. I am talking about music and movies etc., games, after a time phase might loose their appeal.
Also if you have downloaded something with very few seeders, chances are 1-2 years later, you won't get that so easily, may be even impossible. I am talking about music and movies etc., games, after a time phase might loose their appeal.
rare data shud be backed up if it is important
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Let's put everything we've explored into some rational perspective. Here is what we know about hard drives from the two cited studies.
MTBF tells you nothing about reliability.
The annualized failure rate (AFR) is higher than what manufacturers claim.
Drives do not have a tendency to fail during the first year of use. Failure rates steadily increase with age.
SMART is not a reliable warning system for impending failure detection.
The failure rates of “enterprise” and “consumer” drives are very much similar.
The failure of one drive in an array increases the likelihood of another drive failure.
Temperature has a minor effect on failure rates.
Thanks to Softlayer's 5000+-drive operation, we know that some of those points also apply to SSDs. As we saw in the published studies, hard drive failure rates are affected by controllers, firmware, and interfaces (SAS versus SATA). If it's true that write endurance doesn't play a role in random drive failures and that vendors use compute-quality NAND in MLC- and SLC-based products, then we'd expect enterprise-class SSDs to be no more reliable than consumer offerings.
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Reliability is a sensitive subject, and we've spent many hours on the phone with multiple vendors and their customers trying to conduct our own research based on the SSDs that are currently being used en masse. The only definitive conclusion we can reach right now is that you should take any claim of reliability from an SSD vendor with a grain of salt.
Giving credit where it is due, many of the IT managers we interviewed reiterated that Intel's SLC-based SSDs are the shining standard by which others are measured. But according to Dr. Hughes, there's nothing to suggest that its products are significantly more reliable than the best hard drive solutions. We don’t have failure rates beyond two years of use for SSDs, so it’s possible that this story will change. Should you be deterred from adopting a solid-state solution? So long as you protect your data through regular backups, which is imperative regardless of your preferred storage technology, then we don't see any reason to shy away from SSDs. To the contrary, we're running them in all of our test beds and most of our personal workstations. Rather, our purpose here is to call into question the idea that SSDs are definitely more reliable than hard drives, based on today's limited backup for such a claim.
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Sounds funny but ya I still rely on DVDs for backup!!
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I also suggest that Writing very very important data to CD/DVD etc.
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