To: Dr. Sivana
Any data that is truly important to me gets burned to disc and stored.
23 posted on
01/02/2015 7:47:18 AM PST by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: wally_bert
Any data that is truly important to me gets burned to disc and stored.
Do note that DVD-Rs and CD-Rs DO have a shelf life, and should be re-copied every few years.
36 posted on
01/02/2015 9:41:01 AM PST by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: wally_bert
Any data that is truly important to me gets burned to disc and stored.Well, depending on your age, those may last your lifetime.
Or not.
No one knows for sure.
Aside from that, unless you have old computers with the proper software from the 90s to the present, the odds of you having the software to read the oldest data is pretty much...
ZERO.
43 posted on
01/02/2015 10:44:49 AM PST by
publius911
(Formerly Publius6961)
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