CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XIX - Watkins says Seagate "helps people buy crap... and watch porn"

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White_Pheonix @ Aug 26th 2007 6:41PM

DVDs are more reliable than an old hard drive. After all, if you lose one, that's just 4 gigs gone (or 8, if you've got a burner that can handle dual layer DVDs), and that takes two days or less to retrieve, if you can download the content at more than 100 KB/s. On the other hand, if your 500GB HD kicks the bucket, you've got 500GB of lost content, which could take a very long time to retrieve, especially if you don't know everything that was on it (in which case you might never get everything back).

RAID seems to be the way to go. After all, the chance of both drives (assuming that they are different models, and not stored in an area that's too hot, or damp) dieing in the same week is very low, and if they die even a week apart, there's enough time to get another drive and mirror all the content over between the first drive and the second drive dieing.

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