On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:46:20 -0500 (CDT), L. V. Lammert wrote: >DVDs are, believe it or not, not as reliable as a HD!
Sez who? I've dropped a pile of DVDs and never lost a bit and I've seen more HD failures than I can poke a stick at, and those were not failures due to trauma. I use DVD-RAM cartridges to do backups. Those disks are rated at 100K cycles rewrite life. The drive is on a winbox that I must have to use some (government supplied) Tax software that runs on naught else but somebody hinted recently that FreeBSD can run DVD-RAM so it may move. OTOH I'm sort of familiar with XP and FBSD installs are a PITA in my experience. Carrying HDDs off-site is an adventure I don't encourage for backup. (Replies, if any, on list please. Off-list replies to the Sender: address are tarpitted. There is a Reply-to: that works for the shy.) Rod/ /earth: write failed, file system is full cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device
