CDs are too small for anything I do and I do not know anyone with a CD reader outside of a player under their TV. SD cards store more, are more reliable, and are cheap.
DVDs work until your computer breaks and you have to read the disks in another computer. You have to regularly test your drive is working and the disks are readable somewhere else. The one advantage of a DVD is the ability to store a whole project on one disk.
Dual layer disks are painfully tricky. Throw them out. Same with Bluray. They might work on your machine but not anywhere else.
For DVD, I used two drives and at least two or three good brands. Brands that actually make disks, not just brands printed on whatever cheap junk they bought that week. Everything was backed up to multiple disks and every disk was read in the other drive. I only performed that type of backup as an archive. Backup a project phase one when completed and working on phase two.
Today I use mSATA SSDs retrieved form scrapped computers. They have a ten year life and they are often from a three year old notebook that sat on an office desk while the user did everything on their smartphone. A few dollars for an enclosure. 1 TB of storage for almost nothing.
DVDs work until your computer breaks and you have to read the disks in another computer. You have to regularly test your drive is working and the disks are readable somewhere else. The one advantage of a DVD is the ability to store a whole project on one disk.
Dual layer disks are painfully tricky. Throw them out. Same with Bluray. They might work on your machine but not anywhere else.
For DVD, I used two drives and at least two or three good brands. Brands that actually make disks, not just brands printed on whatever cheap junk they bought that week. Everything was backed up to multiple disks and every disk was read in the other drive. I only performed that type of backup as an archive. Backup a project phase one when completed and working on phase two.
Today I use mSATA SSDs retrieved form scrapped computers. They have a ten year life and they are often from a three year old notebook that sat on an office desk while the user did everything on their smartphone. A few dollars for an enclosure. 1 TB of storage for almost nothing.
Statistics: Posted by peterlite — Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:53 am