lyceemoliere Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 (edited) I have been trying to use minidiscs to back up slides and photos in the hopes that if they are backed up on both cds and himd discs the photos are more likely to be saved and last well into the future. Am also hoping this will help in the event computer gets another virus and needs to be fixed or wiped clean as a result.Have people encountered glitches with uploading data similar to that described frequently in this forum when uploaded music seems to be lost during the upload process or is this glitch specific for music and sonic stage? If problems occur- any ideas on how to prevent dataloss other than by having the photos saved in a n alternate medium? Edited March 16, 2005 by lyceemoliere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 i dont think you will see much lost data as the music upload problem comes from sonicstage not using the normal removable storage media protocol when transfering music and then failing at some stage while still setting the song on the hi-md as uploaded... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierMD Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 I've done some (only a few big files) experimenting with storing files on both types of MD's (1 GB and old school MD's)...and haven't had any problems...However, the transfer rate is pretty slow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Dye-based disc formats are proving to be unreliable for long-term backup.Currently the best optical formats for archival are either MO discs [such as MD] or CDRW, which is not dye-based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 (edited) the cdrw have slight problems tho, its very limited in its number of rewrites and you cant delete a file in the middle of the disc and use the empty space to write something else. both of these you get with MO...so lets break it down to points:hi-md:+small physical size+reliable long-term storage+1gb capasity+ram like rewrite+near umlimited rewrites (1000000+ i think sony have stated)-slow write speedcdrw:-not so small physical size-650MB capasity-all or nothing rewrite-limited number of rewrites (about 1000)+reliable long-term storage+fast write speedcdr:-not so small physical size-ca 700MB capasity (you can find both 650 and i think 800 capasity ones)-no rewrite-unreliable long-term storage+fast write speedas for dvdr and dvdrw (in all their mutations) i cant realy comment. most likely they are like their cd equivalent, only with bigger storage Edited March 18, 2005 by hobgoblin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 the cdrw have slight problems tho, its very limited in its number of rewrites and you cant delete a file in the middle of the disc and use the empty space to write something else. both of these you get with MO...←This is true, but archival usage dictates writing once and not messing with the disc again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 yep true...and i edited my post above for a breakdown of the diffrences in a nice list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 alsoCDR +very cheap per unit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 I've stored and moved and done pretty much everyting possible on a MD and ive had no problems whatsoever (again above and beyond the slow read/write speed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 alsoCDR +very cheap per unit←ah yes. i didnt factor in any cost into the list of positives and negatives. a box with 10-20 cdr's with covers (i prefer the bigger ones even tho they cant take the abuse of the thin ones, habbit i guess) or a spindle of 100 is a realy cheap option for storing stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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