Longevity of DVD-R and CD-R / 2-Media Hedge

[Jim Leonard]

Mark Firestone wrote:
> I'm going to start putting all my cd-r stuff on single layer DVD.  By
> the time I'm done with that, I might be able to afford dual layer disks
> for my burner.  Then blue laser will be out...  Maybe I should just put
> it on two serial ata 120 gig hard drives.  It might last longer between
> copies....

Although your reply was probably meant as sarcastic, it drives home the point 
that you should always have at least two copies of data that is important to 
you.  If you copied all your CDs over to DVD and then discarded the CDs, that 
would be foolish.  (Not directing this at you specifically, just in general.)
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