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Covenience/Cost/Life expectancy of storage media

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I may decide to pick up the battle of advocating for the use of external hard drives instead of Blu-ray discs for data backup. External hard drive: I can get a commercial (consumer) 1TB hard drive for about 150 bucks, and backing up consists of merely "dragging and dropping" the filesystem. The med…

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Always the HDD, the reasons simply being the costs. I always create at least 2 sets of backups, and again the HDD wins hands down for they're easy to keep in sync. As fo the life span, i'm sure, Cranberry (or someone else) will come up with a Bluray…

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